You just hurt the feelings of 5 internet users

People still use Skype?

Relevant parody

Hello. I am evil hacker cyber criminal.

If you want to discuss terms, find me on Skype at EvilHackerCyberCriminalGuy69.

Do not be fooled by the 69, as while it can be seen as a joke, it is my birth year as the original name was taken.

Thank you.

Have to be honest, I thought Skype was discontinued years ago.

On a serious note, most of those people (activists, journalists, etc.) aren't exactly the computer savvy types, nor have the time or resource to spend learning about matters they seldom know about, and yet they are the ones that desperately need this knowledge. They might have an important message to be sent. What would you use to spread the message in their shoes?

Sure, we the tech guys, especially subscribed to privacy related communities, can talk about Tor browser or threat modeling all day. But have you tried bring that up in social circles, if any?

Non tech minded activists will simply use the tools at their disposal: messaging apps? sure; social media apps, if looking for message amplification, whatever it runs on their cheap android phone. Metadata? IP? Profiling? Browser fingerprinting? Some are aware of it, as they also had to endure internet censorship growing up. It's a trade they make knowingly or unknowingly between the cause and their physical and mental health.

We can laugh at their ignorance all we want, but this is how we become the Ivory tower that fuels resentment.

People used to use this attack in League of Legends a decade ago. If they're losing, they guess someone might have Skype open; and moreover, that their Skype is the same as their summoner name. Then they get an ip address and ddos the entire lobby, causing the game to crash (I think it happened in one of my games maybe once, but I didn't really play ranked other than team ranked).

Also, since all pro & semipro players had each other added, this was possible to do at any time during online tournaments (which was most tournaments - TSM invitational etc). So there were always rules that ddossing was disallowed. But it did happen.

Known ddossers were more hated in the community than known flamers, but a few people who did it "reformed" and went on to be pro players anyway.

What if they leave an anonymous tip that you're distributing CSAM?

I remember my friends and I doing this in 2008. This really is super old

Users may consent to giving Microsoft their IP address but not to everyone who sends them a link

Because this can happen without you connecting to any suspicious server.

Lol I love how behind the times academics can be. This literally was a big thing used to ddos streamers back in the day like 2010s-2015s. All that needed to happen was they accepted a call and since Skypes peer to peer the hacker instantly got their IP. I remember Destiny being targeted for a while by it.

Was common practice in procurement for me and my team, still have contacts at ASRock / Keychron / Logitech / SteelSeries / Beacn / HYTE / Maxsun and many more.

Was a platform that was used early on and has carried through. Factories in China will commonly use WeChat but many of the more mainstream western brands will default to Skype.

Still a thing for some enterprise users... and the elderly.

Even an overzealous nerd would understand knowing an IP address is pretty much worthless.