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Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype. Microsoft Is In No Rush to Fix It (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yk I was on the others side of this til this comment, like I was gonna say there's a difference between corporations and malicious individual actors, but nowadays I'd trust some random individual 1000x before a company.

God I hope veilied becomes popular