Skype's Network Ditches P2P Tech for Linux Boxes

JMH · May 2, 2012

The new Skype network has fewer Linux-based supernotes that now use grsecurity to fend of hacking attacks.

Microsoft has reportedly done away with the peer-to-peer client machines that have powered Skype's VoIP network over the last nine years.
Instead, Skype now uses thousands of Linux-based servers that have been "hardened" for the most common types of hack attacks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Sk...security-peer-to-peer,15509.html#xtor=RSS-181

GZ · May 2, 2012

I hate to be rolling on the floor laughing at this... It just tickles me to see the mighty Microsoft using Linux servers instead of Windows based servers!!!!

:rofl12:

Maybe they should take a cue and tighten up security on their own server offerings.

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Skype's Network Ditches P2P Tech for Linux Boxes

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