Multiple login issue with notification and something on the login security with Skype reduced to triple login... Arff..

I thought I noticed something different with the number of times you can login to the same Skype account…  I did not really look into it anymore the past 3 months, because it seemed to me that Skype itself just does not care about this topic anyways (dual,triple, login without notification and sending of clear text password over pop/smtp email). After a while on repeating the same and same thing, you get kind of bored and tired of it. Even I…

So what I am talking about here ? This morning I thought, that maybe if I kept repeating this shitty story somebody would finally listen. I have «ranted» about it so many times… and well, here goes another one since it is not fixed, and not even addressed.

I am one of those typical computer-users with a portable laptop, a fixed desktop and lately a Skype WiFi Phone. So those are 3 logins. At home I have WIFI/ROUTER that gets it dynamic IP-number from my ADSL-provider. Meaning : all those 3 identical Skype account (ID : tropicaljantie) are running on a local area network, they have an internal fixed IP-number and go over the same Internet-gateway to the world wide web. In this case they all login for authentication at the ui.skype.com.

I noticed that now (running the Skype 3.0. corp. beta) i can run 3 simultaneous sessions on one computer (laptop1) with the same skype ID, but not fourth session with the same ID on the same computer. Remember I am already running another session of the same Skype ID/Account on another computer (desktop1). So nothing much changed..

This has not so much do I guess with the version of Skype (I guess) but is more an issue of how many clients the skype user policy allows to login simultaneously or stay online at the same time (in case you were already logged).

Whatever they are doing on their login-server (I guess you wont’ read that on the forum…), I wish I would have some overview of the IP-numbers that are logging on my account and I also want to be able to disable the dual-login feature. I am one person. Normally only me will login to 1 skype ID on 1 computer and if I need to have multiple login features, I will just tag that on and off.

Until then I consider this system highly insecure, due to the fact that you have no notification whatsoever of multiple simultaneous login. And the same goes for the online control panel of the Skype Account…

Tell me what business will want such a system ? Whereby virtually anybody who can guess the password of an account will be able to login to any account. The point is that there is no notification, of any abuse. I find that disturbing.

To finish with something positive… The only good thing I could notice on the matter of login-security is that after a number of wrong password entries there will be a delay. So you cannot continue to guess a password and that is good. At least something. But the bad thing again is that you (me as the owner of an account) does not get any notification whatsoever (neither does the company administrator of the company accounts – that concept does not exist in skype –) therefore abuse is virtually undetectable. What is the point of having a reporting-service abuse@skype.net if you have no to monitor or get notified of strange login behaviour.

Is that the type of cell-phone we will soon be running around with in our hands ?

I don’t like it at all because any person with an unhealthy interest could easily enough obtain access to my contact-list and even monitor chat.

No sir, I don’t like it. At least not this part. For the rest I think it is a great system.

I wonder what the ceo’s of Ebay and Skype think about their own invention on this level… That would be the first question I would ask them in an interview.