since more or less today Skype is not allowed anymore on the UCSB campus network. The reasons are: 1) providing bandwidth to people not involved with UCSB (Skype's P2P behavior) and 2) security of campus computers running Skype.
I guess this counts for the whole UC system so Skype is loosing a huge amount of users here. Also I know about other big companies which also have baned Skype from the networks. So is Skype dieing soon?
Paddy wrote
how can they block it at all? It's not bound to dedicated ports afaik...? Or do they block all connections to skype.com? Or is it just officially forbidden, and you're simply not supposed to use it?
Collin wrote
its just officially forbidden, very stupid
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