Thursday, February 08, 2007

Skype Reads Your BIOS

This probably would've gone unnoticed if the operation didn't fail on 64-bit windows. It's dumping your system BIOS, which usually includes your motherboard's serial number, and pipes it to the Skype application. I have no idea what they're using it for, or whether they send anything to their servers, but I bet whatever they're doing is no good given their track record. If they hadn't been ignorant of Win64's lack of NTVDM, nobody would've noticed this happening.

Read the article HERE.

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