Sour grapes for sore losers
Attention gamers and streamers, go update your Skype installation if you havent done so recently. The reason why is because the latest build finally hides IP addresses by default.
"Starting with this update to Skype and moving forward, your IP address will be kept hidden from Skype users. This measure will help prevent individuals from obtaining a Skype ID and resolving to an IP address," the Skype team announced in a blog post.
Microsoft is specifically targeting gamers with this update. Why? Prior to this latest release, it wasnt all that difficult for a sore loser (or pretty much any trouble maker) on the Internet to discover a persons IP address based on their Skype ID. There are several sites and services called "resolvers" that offer to do the dirty work, so even non-programmers and armchair hackers could obtain a Skype users IP address with little effort.
As a result, targeted gamers have been putting up with distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks, sometimes from sore losers and other times simply from someone with nothing better to do with their time. The latest version of Skype should go a long way towards reducing (not eliminating) the prevalence of such incidents.
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