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The blogsphere jumps in again when it comes to help companies to do a better job with their products. Here is today’s story. Dameon aka “hacker” Phoneboy discovered that iSkoot, the popular mobile client for Skype, was using port 80 and http to send, without any encryption, users’ private Skype data, including userid and password.

After a couple of emails back and forth with us bloggers and with iSkoot’s CEO, who immediately took care of the issue, the problem seems to be solved now. Praises to Dameon for pointing this issue out, to the blogosphere to quickly react and to iSkoot to promptly look into it and solve it immediately.

More perspectives to the story here, here, here and here.

In conclusion, another win of the blogosphere which prevented millions of Skype’s credentials to be potentially stolen, sooner or later (even if, to be honest, wouldn’t have been so easy anyway).

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