A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.

A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      281·
      1 year ago

      With just an IP? Then the system is broken. Because an IP is often easy to get, and everything that directly connects to you needs your IP, unless you use a VPN I guess.

      Every website knows your IP. Every internet application knows your IP. Everyone in a peer-to-to-peer network knows your IP. It’s not a secret, it’s just your internet address. It is designed to be known.

      • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Yk I was on the others side of this til this comment, like I was gonna say there’s a difference between corporations and malicious individual actors, but nowadays I’d trust some random individual 1000x before a company.

        God I hope veilied becomes popular