Nick -
Sounds like you got the distinction of becoming a 'supernode' in the
Skype P2P network somewhere down the line...
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~library/TR-repository/reports/reports-2004/cucs-039-04.pdf
Like Brent suggested, only running Skype when you want/intend to use it
would reduce this side-effect. But then, the whole point of the
architecture was to allow the overhead costs to be low enough to keep it
a "free service". The question is whether you want to contribute to
the "commons" or just take from them? In the case of your Mobile
HotSpot, it makes sense to not use *that* bandwidth to support other
Skype call routing... but in general, it is a natural part of a
"community service".
How many of us knew that Skype worked this way?
- Steve
Thanks, Raymond,
There is nobody else within an eight of a mile and the wifi barely
reaches across the house.
The stuff on my computer is standard office stuff. The only unusual
program I have is the music program finale.
Does uninstalling Skype really get rid of it. It had become a really
pushy program and it fought of uninstallation for a bit.
When I get back to Santa Fe, I think I am going to wipe the hard disk
and start again. Try to limp along until then.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
*From:*Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Parks,
Raymond
*Sent:* Friday, September 06, 2013 7:30 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Urgent: skype vulnerability?
I did a quick search through my data and there haven't been any major
Skype vulns in a while. There's a local privilege escalation from
this last spring and URL snooping, but neither should result in
massive Skype usage. The Dark Comet Remote Access Tool (RAT) uses the
Skype port and protocol to "phone home", so you might have a pest
problem. Even worse, a vulnerability was published last fall for
getting in to the Dark Comet RAT via it's use of Skype - so if you
have Dark Comet, someone could be breaking it to get into your computer.
I'd do an off-line, boot from CD/DVD, virus scan with your anti-virus
of choice.
The Jet Pack provides a wireless access point - could someone be
piggybacking on that? What's your WiFi security?
Ray Parks
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On Sep 6, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Hi, everybody,
I have a Verizon jet pack for my internet here in Massachusetts
and every once in a while huge charges have appeared on my usage,
apparent downloads of a gigabyte scale of magnitude. I complained
to Verizon and they did an analysis of my record and tell me that
these are VOIP usages. Their suspicion is that some teenager in
my house is using the box to make phone calls over skype. But
there is no teenager in my house and no other house within an
eighth of a mile. Is it possible that some Trojan is using skype
to communicate. Why? What would be the benefit to the hacker.
Using my computer for what? In any case, I have murdered skype.
Is there any other abuse of the voip protocol that could be going
on in my computer? Can I disable voip altogether on my machine?
My service costs ten dollars a gig, so this is not a small matter
for me. Anybody have any thoughts?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
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