Recent Security vulnerability in Skype

On ma, 2005-11-07 at 16:27 +0100, Jeroen van Splunder wrote:

> > *) I suspect most of these users I haven't heard of that vulnerability
> They don't need to. A patched version will be downloaded from the
> repositories. 

No, skype is not in the repositories.

> > *)  and it was posted on the sounder list, a list described as
> > "Anything goes Ubuntu community chit-chat and discussion list"
> > (http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder)
> > 
> Skype is actually a very non-Ubuntu application, because it is
> proprietary software. Also, notice the word community before chit-chat.
> Security bulletins != community

Notifying the community about an update is community...
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Dennis K.
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