I rely on Skype for communications. They get my money in preference to Telefonica and up until yesterday they provided a good enough service. Not quite up to POTs standards but good enough. The service went down yesterday for reasons that remain unclear. The peer to peer network as not been available all day (its' now 1630 CET). They say SkypeOut is working - it isn't. It's a shambles.
Whether Skype's outage was due to an exploit or an algorithm doesn't really matter. What matters is there were small businesses that actually depended on Skype and were let down. I'd certainly think twice before relying on Skype.
It's not so many years ago that the smallest storm would routinely knock out the Spanish phone system in our area. Today, we take it for granted that it will just work. Today, Skype is like Spain was: unreliable. The big question now is what will they do to compensate those who don't have a landline but rely on Skype.
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