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I often get asked for my Skype address, sometimes in relation to business or casual conversation. I politely decline with some degree of hand-waving about my reasons, and suggest an alternative form of communication (typically either Google Talk or Google Hangouts, depending on the context—both are built right in to Gmail!). I'd like to outline some of the reasons why I've made the decision to avoid Skype, primarily so I have something to link to when someone asks me about it.
First and foremost, we don't really know what Skype actually does. The binary (the actual program you run on your computer) is obfuscated, so attempts at disassembling it [PDF] to verify some of its strange behavior and the information it is transmitting have so far come up with very little. This is an issue, because Skype produces encrypted traffic even when you are not actively using Skype. This means we can only speculate on what information Skype is collecting about you after you've so graciously chosen to install it, and perhaps more importantly who it is sending that information to.
Quoting Salman Baset:
When a Skype client is not in a call and is running on a machine with public IP address, it has on the average 4-8 active TCP connections and atleast one UDP connection.
While connecting to external IP addresses is normal for a server/client architecture and necessary for receiving notifications, the volume of traffic and number of connections is concerning, considering the compounding issues between Skype's peer-to-peer architecture [PDF] and the "reasonable level of detection accuracy" in snooping on voice calls in Skype [PDF], despite the [purportedly] encrypted nature of the Skype protocol.
Speaking in general terms, Skype is "black box" software which has undergone no public review despite very concerning observed behavior. When new Skype malware (like Skype IMBot, of which an analysis is available, or the more recent Skype account hijacking) is released, there are very few options to protect ourselves if we've got Skype installed. On Linux, tools like AppArmor and TOMOYO exist, but without the ability to easily view the source and understand the attack (per perhaps even fix it proactively, before it occurs) we are at the mercy of Skype's new maintainers to provide a timely resolution in a reactive approach.
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
— Richard Stallman
In conclusion, while Skype may be convenient, it presents a series of questions that must be asked and implications to be considered before choosing it over other chat, VoIP, and video chat solutions. I can only hope that more people consider these things before doing so.
Asides
Some of the other things I found interesting, more recently than the research I've linked in this post, include
Skype's role in the Syrian conflict, in which a claim was made as follows:
A media activist in Idlib named Mohamed said a rebel informant working for the government was killed in Damascus six months ago after sending warnings to the Free Syrian Army on Skype.
“I saw this incident right in front of my eyes,” Mohamed said. “We put his info on Skype so he was arrested and killed.”
Skype (Microsoft) has also made other concerning statements after accusations of helping the U.S. Government spy on its own citizens.
Wikipedia also lists a large number of known flaws in Skype, which I've chosen to avoid duplicating in this post.
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“Good behavior is good ‘politics,’ which is something this non-political money needs.” – @
Jim_Harper, presciently in
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+Eric Martindale I agree whole-heartedly. I've been trying to hack this behavior out of windows live mail for a couple months now. I type a lot of mathematics in emails, and every time I type something like (x) or any of a hundred other common constructs, that stupid thing makes it into an icon. I hate that!
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I'm of the opinion that we could teach our young children subjects like calculus, if only we had mechanisms through which to empower those with curiosity to play with them. Then, the application of the effort to teach becomes one of rewarding knowledge, rather than repetitive structures of memorization and batteries of tests.
Take, for example, these visualizations of various concepts in mathematics. How enlightening would it be if we could play with these as we work through the process of learning the equations that describe them, letting our brain form the map between the system's description, its properties, and its behavior?
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Education is Curiosity, Enabled
I'm of the opinion that we could teach our young children subjects like calculus, if only we had mechanisms through which to empower those with curiosity to play with them. Then, the application of the effort to teach becomes one of rewarding knowledge, rather than repetitive structures of memorization and batteries of tests.
Take, for example, these visualizations of various concepts in mathematics. How enlightening would it be if we could play with these as we work through the process of learning the equations that describe them, letting our brain form the map between the system's description, its properties, and its behavior?
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Education is Curiosity, Enabled
I'm of the opinion that we could teach our young children subjects like calculus, if only we had mechanisms through which to empower those with curiosity to play with them. Then, the application of the effort to teach becomes one of rewarding knowledge, rather than repetitive structures of memorization and batteries of tests.
Take, for example, these visualizations of various concepts in mathematics. How enlightening would it be if we could play with these as we work through the process of learning the equations that describe them, letting our brain form the map between the system's description, its properties, and its behavior?
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Education is Curiosity, Enabled
I'm of the opinion that we could teach our young children subjects like calculus, if only we had mechanisms through which to empower those with curiosity to play with them. Then, the application of the effort to teach becomes one of rewarding knowledge, rather than repetitive structures of memorization and batteries of tests.
Take, for example, these visualizations of various concepts in mathematics. How enlightening would it be if we could play with these as we work through the process of learning the equations that describe them, letting our brain form the map between the system's description, its properties, and its behavior?
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Article is 1/2 true, agree on the human behavior side of things, but the climate change is wrong. Climate change is just another name for "weather patterns", and nothing new is happening today that hasn't happened back in history before the invention of carbon emitting machinery. Droughts and hot spells happened many times over. We are at the end of a solar maximum calendar of the sun and will be headed into a cooling period for a long while now, which if we go to cold, the same affect will happen. So what then? Go out and run your car on the drive for a hour ever day in hopes of warming the planet up??
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In speech recognition breakthrough, Microsoft converts spoken English into spoken Mandarin, using the same voice.Jump to
7:11 in the video for the speech demo. Quote below from Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s Chief Research Officer:
“Just over two years ago, researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto made another breakthrough. By using a technique called Deep Neural Networks, which is patterned after human brain behavior, researchers were able to train more discriminative and better speech recognizers than previous methods.
[...] We have been able to reduce the word error rate for speech by over 30% compared to previous methods. This means that rather than having one word in 4 or 5 incorrect, now the error rate is one word in 7 or 8.”
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft-research-shows-a-promising-new-breakthrough-in-speech-translation-technology.aspx
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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word
Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
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In speech recognition breakthrough, Microsoft converts spoken English into spoken Mandarin, using the same voice.Jump to
7:11 in the video for the speech demo. Quote below from Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s Chief Research Officer:
“Just over two years ago, researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto made another breakthrough. By using a technique called Deep Neural Networks, which is patterned after human brain behavior, researchers were able to train more discriminative and better speech recognizers than previous methods.
[...] We have been able to reduce the word error rate for speech by over 30% compared to previous methods. This means that rather than having one word in 4 or 5 incorrect, now the error rate is one word in 7 or 8.”
Source:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft-research-shows-a-promising-new-breakthrough-in-speech-translation-technology.aspx
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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word
Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
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In speech recognition breakthrough, Microsoft converts spoken English into spoken Mandarin, using the same voice.Jump to
7:11 in the video for the speech demo. Quote below from Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s Chief Research Officer:
“Just over two years ago, researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto made another breakthrough. By using a technique called Deep Neural Networks, which is patterned after human brain behavior, researchers were able to train more discriminative and better speech recognizers than previous methods.
[...] We have been able to reduce the word error rate for speech by over 30% compared to previous methods. This means that rather than having one word in 4 or 5 incorrect, now the error rate is one word in 7 or 8.”
Source:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft-research-shows-a-promising-new-breakthrough-in-speech-translation-technology.aspx
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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word
Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
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In speech recognition breakthrough, Microsoft converts spoken English into spoken Mandarin, using the same voice.Jump to
7:11 in the video for the speech demo. Quote below from Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s Chief Research Officer:
“Just over two years ago, researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto made another breakthrough. By using a technique called Deep Neural Networks, which is patterned after human brain behavior, researchers were able to train more discriminative and better speech recognizers than previous methods.
[...] We have been able to reduce the word error rate for speech by over 30% compared to previous methods. This means that rather than having one word in 4 or 5 incorrect, now the error rate is one word in 7 or 8.”
Source:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/08/microsoft-research-shows-a-promising-new-breakthrough-in-speech-translation-technology.aspx
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Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word
Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
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All About Forensic PsychologyNew video to promote The All About Forensic Psychology website. I originally built the the website as a student resource for an undergraduate course in forensic psychology I wrote and delivered.
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Thank you for taking the time to check out my forensic psychology website. My name is David Webb and I've had a passionate interest in studying and teaching psychology for over 20 years. I have a first class honors degree in psychology and a Masters in Occupational psychology from the University of Sheffield (UK). For a number of years, I was a lecturer in psychology at the University of Huddersfield (UK). During this time I wrote and delivered an undergraduate course in forensic psychology, as a result of which I ended up building the All About Forensic Psychology website (http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/). Highlights on the website include: A detailed and clear account of what forensic psychology actually is. Important because of the way the subject has been distorted, sensationalised and inaccurately presented in books, films and on TV. See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/what-is-forensic-psychology.html A series of information pages on criminal profiling. A fascinating subject to learn about in iteslf but also important to know of its place within forensic psychology; for example is criminal profiling a realistic career goal? See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/fbi-profiler.html The Forensic Psychology Degree Directory. A great resource for anybody thinking about studying forensic psychology. See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-degree.html Free full-text articles. A wonderful collection of publications including a special "Inside the Criminal Mind" collection showcasing all the major articles written by members of the Behavioral Science Units, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy. See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-ebook.html I really hope that you find all the information and resources on the All About Forensic Psychology website useful and engaging. David Webb BSc (hons), MSc http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/
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All About Forensic PsychologyNew video to promote The All About Forensic Psychology website. I originally built the the website as a student resource for an undergraduate course in forensic psychology I wrote and delivered.
Highlights on the website include:
A detailed and clear account of what forensic psychology actually is. Important because of the way the subject has been distorted, sensationalised and inaccurately presented in books, films and on TV. See following link.
http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/what-is-forensic-psychology.htmlA series of
information pages on criminal profiling. A fascinating subject to learn about in iteslf but also important to know of its place within forensic psychology; for example is criminal profiling a realistic career goal? See following link.
http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/fbi-profiler.htmlThe
Forensic Psychology Degree Directory. A great resource for anybody thinking about studying forensic psychology. See following link.
http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-degree.htmlFree full-text articles. A wonderful collection of publications including a special "Inside the Criminal Mind" collection showcasing all the major articles written by members of the Behavioral Science Units, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy. See following link.
http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-ebook.htmlI really hope that you find all the information and resources on the All About Forensic Psychology website useful and engaging.
All the best
David
http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/
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Forensic Psychology
Thank you for taking the time to check out my forensic psychology website. My name is David Webb and I've had a passionate interest in studying and teaching psychology for over 20 years. I have a first class honors degree in psychology and a Masters in Occupational psychology from the University of Sheffield (UK). For a number of years, I was a lecturer in psychology at the University of Huddersfield (UK). During this time I wrote and delivered an undergraduate course in forensic psychology, as a result of which I ended up building the All About Forensic Psychology website (http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/). Highlights on the website include: A detailed and clear account of what forensic psychology actually is. Important because of the way the subject has been distorted, sensationalised and inaccurately presented in books, films and on TV. See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/what-is-forensic-psychology.html A series of information pages on criminal profiling. A fascinating subject to learn about in iteslf but also important to know of its place within forensic psychology; for example is criminal profiling a realistic career goal? See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/fbi-profiler.html The Forensic Psychology Degree Directory. A great resource for anybody thinking about studying forensic psychology. See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-degree.html Free full-text articles. A wonderful collection of publications including a special "Inside the Criminal Mind" collection showcasing all the major articles written by members of the Behavioral Science Units, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy. See following link. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/forensic-psychology-ebook.html I really hope that you find all the information and resources on the All About Forensic Psychology website useful and engaging. David Webb BSc (hons), MSc http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/
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