Skype Reads Your BIOS and Motherboard Serial Number

No, I am not going start another blogpost with the whole story but days after it was published on the Internet for the very first time, I still receive IM’s from concerned contacts.

Fortunately I can forward them to the blog post of Jaanus at Skype’s Blog.

So please read:

“Over the past few days, we have seen a story circulating about how Skype is reading BIOS data of your computer and what this might possibly mean. Here’s an update from our Chief Security Officer Kurt Sauer on this.”