Skype is sniffing ? You must be kidding me!

Guess what! The little tricks of skype does not have an end ... The Linux users of Skype recently discovered that it is reading the /etc/passwd and firefox profile files. COME ON? Do you continue using Skype?

The original post is here: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=95261
And some explanations can be found here: http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/08/a_close_look_at_questionable_a.html

But I seriously consider using Skype ...

Do you?

Another SKYPE issue ...

Do you know the Debug View ?
It is a very usefull application by Microsoft. You can watch for all debug info sent to the "Debug output".

So, I was looking for debug output from some of my projects and I noticed some strange "PING/PONG" messages. The next thing I saw was some names from my Skype's contact list. Amazing ...

Shouldn't they build Skype end product in "Release" configuration and suppress all these debug output messages ?

Spyware ?

I got an interesting situation recently:
I tried to start-up the default site on the IIS and it exited with error - another process is listening on that port (or something like that). The point is that some program was already listening on port 80 before I start-up the IIS.
A very surprising for me, because the Apache is running on another linux machine and has nothing to do with the IIS.
Fortunately there is a very very useful program called TcpView which actually does exactly the same as the command line: netstat -anb but in graphical interface.
So, what is the surprice:


Somebody, pleas tell me what does the SKYPE needs a port 80 and 443 for ???