{"id":319,"date":"2006-04-04T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=319"},"modified":"2006-04-04T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:06:14","slug":"is_skype_safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Is Skype safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Giussani <a href=\"http:\/\/giussani.typepad.com\/loip\/2006\/04\/the_issues_with.html\">continues<\/a> his examination of the vulnerabilities that Skype may introduce into corporate networks (previously discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/free_as_in_ride.php\">here<\/a>). He links to an in-depth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secdev.org\/conf\/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf\">technical dissection<\/a> of Skype by researchers at the European Aeronautic Defense and Space organization (EADS), which will be of interest to network administrators.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I missed this Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB114369288512912073-WSdgoiWSA_fdwMXR956sAQqs980_20060407.html\">article<\/a> from last week, which takes a broader look at corporate concerns about employees&#8217; use of free web services like Skype:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some companies worry the new services will overwhelm their networks with unwanted traffic. Others are primarily concerned about security or their ability to track workplace communications, especially in industries like financial services, where regular monitoring is required by regulators. Instant messages from the outside, for example, often aren&#8217;t logged and archived the way email is, creating a potential backdoor for illicit communications or breaches of client privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Skype claims the fears are overblown. Says executive Michael Jackson: &#8220;Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there&#8217;s hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn&#8217;t have an Internet connection.&#8221; That&#8217;s a good general observation, though the fact that past fears dissipated says little about whether current fears are warranted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Giussani continues his examination of the vulnerabilities that Skype may introduce into corporate networks (previously discussed here). He links to an in-depth technical dissection of Skype by researchers at the European Aeronautic Defense and Space organization (EADS), which will be of interest to network administrators. UPDATE: I missed this Wall Street Journal article from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}