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 [Voiptelephonyservice.blogspot.com] The VoIP Service Blog: The block Skype hype: For home users this seems like a great thing because they don’t have to mess with opening ports (providing they even use a firewall). Now lets say you’re a network administrator & your using a transparent proxy, anyone can simple install Skype on a USB drive & not only use you company or governments bandwidth but thanks to the “Skype EUA” which give Skype the right to us all of your systems bandwidth & resources to route calls for other people not to mention transfer confidential files.

 [Snapvoip.blogspot.com] VOIP IP Telephony: How skype punches holes in your Firewall: snapvoip.blogspot.com is the single destination Blog for VOIP, IP Telephony, IPPBX, Open Source voip, voip news, skype, asterisk, SIP and voip info based on voice over ip Technology. The VOIP Blog.

[Pagetable.com] pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Skype Reads Your BIOS and ...: to read your PC’s BIOS.  Predictably, this set off a Slashdot firestorm when posted there as well as numerous other mentions throughout the blogosphere and wider web.  Ultimately, Skype CSO Kurt Sauer posted an explanation that this was part of the DRM component of the EasyBits framework Skype uses in their Extras Plugin Manager.  If you look at what Skype is doing with their Extras Gallery, they are very clearly making the play to be an application delivery platform - for commercial apps as well as free apps.  Leaving the DRM religious war aside, the reality is that the moment you start talking commercial apps typically most vendors also start talking about some form of DRM to ensure that people aren’t just copying the commercial apps and giving them to their friends.  Skype’s answer is this “EasyBits framework” and it appears that this framework was reading the BIOS to obtain a unique identifier for the PC.  You can read the slashdot trail or the responses to the initial post to see various views on the intelligence of doing this, but suffice it to say that Skype owned up to the fact that this was what was going on.

[Smithonvoip.com] Smith On VoIP - Garrett Smith’s Insights on VoIP Products and Services: As somone who deals with small medium enterprises and VoIP deployments on a daily basis, I can say without a doubt that the name on the box (IP PBX) does not mean anything, unless it means it is easy to use, integrate, and manage. For small medium enterprises, and their even larger breathren, that are already using Microsoft products, the Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 gives them everything they could get with any other system.

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