Skype File Sharing Vulnerabilities Outlined in New Study from Polytechnic Institute of NYU

In a recent innovation paper, a group of experts at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University revealed that the massively popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) platform Skype can be easily exploited by virtually anyone to track the whereabouts of a person.

"We conclude that any Internet user can leverage Skype, and potentially other real-time communications systems, to observe the mobility and file sharing usage of tens of millions of identified users," the technology paper stated, according to this report by PC Mag.

"Exactly, if Alice knows Bob's VoIP ID, she can establish a call with Bob and obtain his current IP address by simply sniffing the datagrams arriving to her computer," it added.

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