Last night I read on Skype's website the following: "Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours." The glitch has affected every copy of the Skype software that had been downloaded since the service's started in 2003."
Really now? 4 years this bug has existed in every single copy of Skype and now it crops up? This is mighty fishy. Are you telling me the Skype network just magically stayed up and avoided hitting this bug?
According to dbTechno, "Kurt Sauer, the chief security officer of Skype, stated that “What happened today was caused by a unique set of events, the genesis of which is not entirely understood.” He also stated that the chance is that this could “go on beyond tomorrow.”
Not good.
Though some positive comments Friday morning from Skype on the Skype Heartbeat-
Skype did perform some maintenance on August 15th, which in all likelihood caused the cascade failure. My next question is why was this planned maintenance so important and why couldn't it be rolled back?
Tin foil hatters are emailing me to tell me the CIA and FBI are working closely with Skype to add wiretapping capabilities to the Skype network for tracking terrorist conversations and to make Skype CALEA compliant. They claim that it was the FBI and CIA that brought down the Skype network with their specialized servers that sit on the Skype network and track/record VoIP conversations. But that's just conspiracy talk.
Next you tin foil hatters are going to tell me Area 51 is holding an alien spaceship or that Elvis is still alive. And don't get me started on the 9/11 truthers (conspiracy nuts) that think President Bush and our own U.S. government attacked the World Trade Center and imploded the buildings. Yeah, Bush is a master genius to pull off the greatest inside job in history yet stupid enough enough to not at least plant some WMDs in Iraq to get his critics off his back. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me.
Really now? 4 years this bug has existed in every single copy of Skype and now it crops up? This is mighty fishy. Are you telling me the Skype network just magically stayed up and avoided hitting this bug?
According to dbTechno, "Kurt Sauer, the chief security officer of Skype, stated that “What happened today was caused by a unique set of events, the genesis of which is not entirely understood.” He also stated that the chance is that this could “go on beyond tomorrow.”
Not good.
Though some positive comments Friday morning from Skype on the Skype Heartbeat-
"We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day.
An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we were yesterday.
Finally, we’d like to dispel a couple of theories that we are still hearing. Neither Wednesday’s planned maintenance of our web-based payment services nor any form of attack was related to the current sign-on issues in any way."
Skype did perform some maintenance on August 15th, which in all likelihood caused the cascade failure. My next question is why was this planned maintenance so important and why couldn't it be rolled back?
Tin foil hatters are emailing me to tell me the CIA and FBI are working closely with Skype to add wiretapping capabilities to the Skype network for tracking terrorist conversations and to make Skype CALEA compliant. They claim that it was the FBI and CIA that brought down the Skype network with their specialized servers that sit on the Skype network and track/record VoIP conversations. But that's just conspiracy talk.
Next you tin foil hatters are going to tell me Area 51 is holding an alien spaceship or that Elvis is still alive. And don't get me started on the 9/11 truthers (conspiracy nuts) that think President Bush and our own U.S. government attacked the World Trade Center and imploded the buildings. Yeah, Bush is a master genius to pull off the greatest inside job in history yet stupid enough enough to not at least plant some WMDs in Iraq to get his critics off his back. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me.
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Nice picture. I took my wife to a B & B this past weekend for our anniversary. I was showing one of the inn keepers pics of my girls on my cellphone. She then informed me where we get the technology for our cell phones, chips and surgery lasers...from aliens. Yep, we are too young to know but apparently back in the early 50's we shut down one of their ships and forced them to give us their technology. So just in case you didn't know. BTW, she was not kidding.
Skype was down all day Thursday in the U.K.and in Crete friday it appeared to be on for a short time but not on at present
Tom Keating U.K.
That was Skype...
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For some reason I cannot diwnload your latest update. You need to make it easier to update this product. If you can configure a way that could be done that would be great, otherwise I may no longer be able to use your product. I am a new computer user, so I don't know what everything is......URL, what does that mean?
Dear Tom:
My name is larry and i got Skype 4.1 I try to get all my friends to try so that we can see each other when chatting.
I like it it works and I would like to get news about any and all updates to this magnificent and free idea you have. so that I can talk to my friends. and get clearer reception. some of my reception is scratchy. but the point is I can see them and they can see me, sometimes. I woulde like to get this update with better reception and less scratchyness. and a lot less hassle. When I call someone for a video chat I think it should go right through and not have any problems such as trying to get it made clear. It should already be clear and right. like when that guy talks to his son from across the world and says good night to him and his son says good morning to him.