The Hacker Way. I don't normally comment on the day's news, but I want to make an exception today to share something from Facebook's S-1 filing.
Over the next few days, astronomical amounts of attention are going to be paid to Facebook's incredible business results: the 800+ million active users, the $3.7 billion (!) In revenue, and their growth rates, too. I hope at least some of that attention will be paid to the culture and process that made those results possible. Skype Reveals Remote and Local IP Address Of All Online Users. If you are a user of the messaging software Skype, you know that you can see the location of your contacts in the Skype interface.
What you probably do not know is that there is currently a way to display a Skype user's remote and local IP address as well. A script has been uploaded to Github that offers these options. According to the page, it can be used to lookup IP addresses of online Skype accounts, and return both the remote and the local IP of that account on a website. This blog post reveals how the script works. Scribd. Google Staff Knew All Along About the Street View Data Breach.