A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.

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      With just an IP? Then the system is broken. Because an IP is often easy to get, and everything that directly connects to you needs your IP, unless you use a VPN I guess.

      Every website knows your IP. Every internet application knows your IP. Everyone in a peer-to-to-peer network knows your IP. It’s not a secret, it’s just your internet address. It is designed to be known.

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        Yk I was on the others side of this til this comment, like I was gonna say there’s a difference between corporations and malicious individual actors, but nowadays I’d trust some random individual 1000x before a company.

        God I hope veilied becomes popular