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August 18, 2007

Skype Outage Highlights Value Of DNS, Risks Of Proprietary

The ongoing outage of the popular voice over IP application Skype highlights the risk of building a utility service like voice communication on a proprietary identity system. By creating a single point of failure, Skype effectively designed into their system an outage that is now affecting hundreds of millions of people. Skype apologizes for the outage,

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Posted by Tom at August 18, 2007 05:28 PM