Skype Free to Roam San Jose Campus

Skype Journal’s Phil Wolff posts that after lots of brouhaha, San Jose State University’s Computing and Telecommunications department (SJSU UCAT) have said they will not ban Skype.

Apparently, a Monday meeting between SJSU officials and Skype-owner eBay’s governmental relations team did the trick.

Although Phil was not in on that meeting, he recommends that any
such future confidence-building sessions between eBay, Skype, and
security-conscious university network types should include Skype’s
potentially valuable role as a long-distance education and research
facilitator, its very light support costs and configurability of Skype
through a proxy service to allow for firewall-enabled monitoring. 

Phil’s most security-conscious point is his last.

He believes eBay and Skype should tell campus IT admins about:

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