Over the past few days, we have seen a story circulating about how Skype is reading BIOS data of your computer and what this might possibly mean. Here’s an update from our Chief Security Officer Kurt Sauer on this.
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The story and its update still breaks the Skype Promise, Jaanus! (http://www.skype.com/download/adwarefree/)
We wrote about it here: http://www.wirelessisfun.com
danberte | Friday, Feb 9
Thank you for the clarification.
stephanmosel | Friday, Feb 9