Well it's lucky that OS X doesn't exist anymore so doesn't affect anyone :p
Infosec bods: This is a backdoor in Skype for Macs. Microsoft: No.
A security hole in Skype for OS X allowed installed apps to silently delve into the user's chat logs, record their calls, and leaf through their contacts. The authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs, which described the flaw as a backdoor that allowed access to all …
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Wednesday 14th December 2016 19:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
I guess if you're in a cross-platform shop, you could run into it by being forced to use BizSkype to be chat compatible with the Windows admins, but otherwise there is already FaceTime. Skype has been off my Mac Menu since it was broken off from the Ebay/PayPal/Skpye Trinity.
Trinity is what the internal interconnection betwixt those three heavily connected properties was known as.
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Friday 16th December 2016 02:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Mac Security LOL
and reliable fixable hardware
/me looks at 2008-era MacBook with bloated-like-a-puffer-fish battery that overheats and craps itself the moment the CPU gets pegged at 80% for more than 3 seconds… then looks at much older 2003-era Toshiba Pentium 4M laptop that has still semi-working battery and runs fine in-spite of its age.
Yep, you had me until you said that.
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Thursday 15th December 2016 15:20 GMT steamrunner
Re: Mac Security LOL
Why have a Mac? I am, in short, a networking specialist. I build and support IT networks, of various shapes and sizes, for numerous clients. This means connecting to multiple networks, multiple clients, multiple different types of routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and so forth, pretty constantly. I'm usually remoted in to a whole pile of different things and places at once, pretty constantly. I live and breath both Windows and Linux servers daily, including both on-prem, virtualised and cloud systems. My weapon of choice to get me on to all this stuff: A MacBook pro. In particular for multiple networks: a Mac can handle multiple networks and connections at the *same time* much (much) better than Windows can. Switching networks, adding/removing additional interfaces, running multiple different VPN clients at once, not worrying about driver updates, etc etc so on and so forth: all so much easier and so much more reliable than on Windows. Reliability is key, especially when someone's network or system is up the creek and you're trying to fix it. Whilst I like to 'twiddle' with things as most techies do, it's critical that my system stays working. No muss, no fuss, just works. Plus, of course, I can *also* run Windows for those moments when I need to - and that Windows can sit on top of all the Mac networking, which is even more useful (my virtual Windows can use all my Mac networking and VPN tools for example). It also slaves to my phone for mobile access with zero issues, and the VPN solutions available are... shock, horror... very stable. Using a pure Windows laptop would be a right PITA in my case. We're not all creatives. Some of us do real work :-)
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