Re:GitHub incident: 2022/03/24
by pzduniak on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:30PM
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Was it really due to that lawsuit? IIRC the main issue with P2P was that you could discover anyone's IP address by knowing their Skype username. I recall that people used this to DoS people in multiplayer video games - they looked up accounts with roughly the same name as the in-game one and proceeded to drop their connection. It was especially common in League of Legends.
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Re:GitHub incident: 2022/03/24
by throwaway89645 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:49PM
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Yep - It was bad enough that it was common practice for people to proxy their skypes through a third party.
(It was pretty nice that Skype let you do that really easily though)