Tuesday, 21. August 2007
Is Skype telling us the truth?
Yes, that explanation by Skype of last week's trouble as being the result of a mass reboot of Windows PCs following the monthly update does seem to beg more questions than it answers. For example:
- Windows update happens every month - why have we not seen this failure mode before?
- Why did it seemingly happen 24 hours late (the mass reboot would have been at 03:00 Wednesday, but Skype went down a day later, on Thursday)?
These questions and some other interesting observations may be found at the SANS ISC Handlers' Diary yesterday.
There's also some talk of a proof of concept exploit against Skype P2P that may have been used in a DoS attack. Skype denies this, but unless we start to hear some more credible explanations than that patch Tuesday story, what are we to believe?
Comments :
1. Jan-Piet Mens24/08/2007 20:42:04
Homepage: http://blog.fupps.com
I find this intriguing : http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2479
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