Morning Edition, August 27, 2007 · When the Internet phone service Skype went down recently, millions of its customers lost contact with the world. Skype says 30 percent of its customers are business users. Scott Gilbertson of Wired News tells Renee Montagne that Skype may not be reliable enough to be a sole provider for big businesses.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
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Initially, (http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/572) Skype said that the problem was caused by millions of users all getting updates from Microsoft and rebooting at the same time. This resulted in 1) lots of simultaneous login requests and 2) shortage of peer-to-peer resources (since the machines were all re-booting).
However, many are wondering about the reality of the explanation: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070820/163914.shtml, especially since some code for a voice-over-ip exploit had been recently posted.
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