Skype was, at the time, the most widely used application in the world to make not only video calls, but also voice calls and to any phone number with much lower rates than those offered by telephone operators. However, in recent years, it seems that it has ceased to be relevant to Microsoft.
With the arrival of Teams, everything seemed to indicate that Skype’s days were numbered, however, as we have been able to observe, Skype is still alive and kicking, although Microsoft is not paying all the attention it should, at least according to what they say from the website 404Media.com
According to this medium, Skype has an important security flaw that allows anyone, with good or bad intentions, to know the IP of the user with whom they are having a conversation, so that, in addition, they can also find out their location.
To access the IP of anyone in a Skype conversation, it is only necessary to share a link through Skype’s text messages function and, in addition, it is not necessary to even click on the link to access it the user’s IP.
Not a major problem according to Microsoft
This security error only affects Skype applications for mobile devices, so if we use the version for Windows or macOS, we will not suffer from this problem. The user who sand contacted 404Media.costates that he contacted Microsoft to notify them of the problem on August 12.
The response given by the worker who responded to his request stated that showing the Skype IP does not meet the definition of a security vulnerability, so it does not require immediate attention from the company to solve it.
This same medium also contacted Microsoft to inform them about this problem and received exactly the same response, but adding that they will solve the problem in the next updates that the application receives.
Showing the IP when sharing a link is not as simple as sending a URL, but requires changing a URL parameter for Skype to show the user’s IP. Skype’s lack of carelessness in recent years, both when it comes to solving problems and adding functions, is one of the main reasons why this application, which has been on the market for more than 20 years, has ceased to be a reference on the Internet. to make calls and video calls.
If we take into account that a mobile device has a different IP every time it connects to a mobile antenna, it can be understood that Microsoft does not consider it a security error, however, when it is connected to a wireless connection, it can be fixed and thus reveal the location of the user.
