November 30, 2005
Image problems for Skype
eBay’s acquisition of Skype has put the free P2P service in the limelight. However, not all this attention has been of the positive kind. According to the Canada-based Info-Tech Research Group big enterprises should refrain from using Skype as the service has some serious security and compliance shortcomings such that even a rookie hacker can pose a serious threat to a company’s network.
Butler Group, which is a UK-based analyst firm, has stated that computers on the Skype P2P network can be used as virtual PBXs. This will affect their speed, performance, and bandwidth consumption. voipplanet.com reports:
Recent releases do make it possible for network managers to turn off the instant messaging (IM) and file transfer functions in Windows Registry as a way to reduce peer-to-peer traffic over a company's Internet connection. But that's as far as it goes.
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