Skype Is Passing Your PC Unique Identifier To Their Server
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007This post claims Skype is sending on startup to its server your unique PC indentifier to their server. They send the BIOS content containing some unique informations.
Anonymity on Skype seems something from the past. Since you have bought your PC: those UUID are on a bill or an invoice order somewhere, hence a link to your name and your Skype calls.
There are others UUID in a PC (ie MAC address), so this is clearly to allow identification of a call. In a way this is no surprise and easy to defeat, still sad.
Since I am on Linux, I cannot check. Did someone else found this file?
