Caution before “Skype” - specialists warn of “state security service methods”

(openPR) - for a long time specialists were a Rätzel, like with “Skype”, one the probably largest IP telephone IE offerer those surprisingly good discussion quality and those perfect coding of the source code to conditions almost come. Now experts discovered that “Skype” picks Bios data out of your computer with the Download of the program necessary for the enterprise of the system and stores these in an executable file. At least the expenditure for on-line of the press agency “Heise” reports under appointment of an Blog entry (now probably former) of a Programmiererin of “Skype”. After the start of the operating system Skype is to create a file with data from the BIOS address range and to prevent the access to these. Which employs the program with the collected information is unclearly, also over contents speculated. The Hackerin became attentive by an error message under the 64-Bit variant of Microsoft Windows XP. For the execution of Skype minutes are needed, which makes possible direct accesses to BIOS data. This service is missing to the operating system. “Also hearing the discussions as well as a not controllable passing on of the seized data to third would be without reservation possible”, so the specialists. … more under www.dcrs.de/news/283/69.html

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