No More Video Sharing On Skype For Now
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News
January23rd2008
Skype has a very large user base, and I am sure a lot of them were happy to use the video sharing feature. They "were happy", but now, they have to limit themselves to linking to YouTube or other sites, because Skype turned off the built-in video sharing feature for an undetermined period of time. Why? Unfortunately, the reason is a flaw that can lead to serious security problems, so until that one gets fixed, no more video sharing with your friends, co-workers or even business partners(I don't think virtual business presentations sound like something out of this world)...

Yesterday, security researchers said that the video-sharing feature in Skype allowed launching a self-copying worm attack against the program's users, which doesn't sound good at all, in my opinion. The feature disabled with this occasion allowed users to share videos from Dailymotion.com and Metacafe.com, at the same time as they were chatting with their friends, but due to the fact that this feature uses an Internet Explorer component for rendering HTML pages, attackers could easily run unauthorized software on computers using Skype's video-sharing feature.
At this time, Skype officials didn't make any comments, but Metacafe officials said that Metacafe videos should become available once again to Skype users by Wednesday morning.
Unfortunately, it seems Skype needs some serious changes to its code, because the Internet Explorer components can always have bad security settings, and I wouldn't trust using them in a thousand years.
Anyway, I am sure that a day or two without this feature won't kill anyone. If you are really addict to Skype's video sharing feature, maybe this is the right time for you to go out, get some fresh air, meet new people, stare at the sky...are you cursing me already? Well, as soon as I hear something new about this problem, be sure I'll get here and write a report!

Yesterday, security researchers said that the video-sharing feature in Skype allowed launching a self-copying worm attack against the program's users, which doesn't sound good at all, in my opinion. The feature disabled with this occasion allowed users to share videos from Dailymotion.com and Metacafe.com, at the same time as they were chatting with their friends, but due to the fact that this feature uses an Internet Explorer component for rendering HTML pages, attackers could easily run unauthorized software on computers using Skype's video-sharing feature.
At this time, Skype officials didn't make any comments, but Metacafe officials said that Metacafe videos should become available once again to Skype users by Wednesday morning.
Unfortunately, it seems Skype needs some serious changes to its code, because the Internet Explorer components can always have bad security settings, and I wouldn't trust using them in a thousand years.
Anyway, I am sure that a day or two without this feature won't kill anyone. If you are really addict to Skype's video sharing feature, maybe this is the right time for you to go out, get some fresh air, meet new people, stare at the sky...are you cursing me already? Well, as soon as I hear something new about this problem, be sure I'll get here and write a report!









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