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#SKYPE SECURITY VULNERABILITY

After this has happened to me I did a little reading on the internet and it seems like Skype has had security problems for a long time now.

Further reading - 

https://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Spoofed-message-from-contact/td-p/4026578/page/115

https://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Virus-hijacking-Skype-to-send-out-web-page-links/td-p/4256327/page/2


https://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-archive/Spam-message-sent-to-all-contacts-devices-were-off/td-p/4029210


I would like to make a few points.

1. More people should know about this.

2. To make sure I am making myself clear - Skype has a problem!  People were sending spam messages from my account even after I did the following.
	a ) changed my password several times
	b ) uninstalled / reinstalled Skype on all of my devices

Messages were being sent even when I was logged out from Skype and there weren’t any applications in my third party list in Skype itself indicating that even if I did have a virus on my computer it was using a security hole in the Skype client.  If you read the forums it suggests there is a deeper issue with the Skype servers probably having to do with linking the accounts with Microsoft.

3. Skype should be doing a better job at being more transparent about this problem.  It has been a serious cause of stress for myself.

Now that I am thinking about chat alternatives and also after reading this - 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670958

I am wondering what the options are.  Is matrix [http://matrix.org/] my best bet?