Over the past few days, we have [seen](http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/07/0146245.shtml) [a](http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/84973) [story](http://www.pagetable.com/?p=27) [circulating](http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.php?showtopic=74921) about how Skype is reading BIOS data of your computer and what this might possibly mean. [Here's an update](http://share.skype.com/sites/security/2007/02/skype_extras_plugin_manager.html) from our Chief Security Officer Kurt Sauer on this.