[IP] French government bans Skype at Universities
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 24, 2005 9:15:00 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: French government bans Skype at Universities
According to http://www.01net.com/editorial/289360/telephonie/skype-
banni-des-facs-par-la-securite-nationale/
the French government has banned use of Skype at universities. The
purported reason: it's insecure. http://www.oberle.org/?p=122 points
out that the real reason may be that it's too secure. A third possible
reason, though I'd have to know more about the funding model there:
someone is losing money because of free phone calls.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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