Skype, you're just weird
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A family member, let's call him Bob, uses Skype on a Ubuntu laptop I set up, to communicate daily with a friend, let's call her Alice, a user of small iDevices who is several timezones and a hemisphere away. This has worked pretty well for a decade or so, mostly interrupted by Alice's propensity for breaking her toys. Recently there was a hiatus of a few weeks, where Alice couldn't get into her Skype account. She set up a new one in her real name a couple of days ago and they reconnected. Now here's the really weird bit: In Alice's Skype chat/contacts, Bob appears as (redacted, let's call it Eve), a name neither of them has ever heard of. In Bob's chat/contacts, Alice appears as the same Eve. What. the. elephant? ? ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A family member, let's call him Bob, uses Skype on a Ubuntu laptop I set up, to communicate daily with a friend, let's call her Alice, a user of small iDevices who is several timezones and a hemisphere away. This has worked pretty well for a decade or so, mostly interrupted by Alice's propensity for breaking her toys. Recently there was a hiatus of a few weeks, where Alice couldn't get into her Skype account. She set up a new one in her real name a couple of days ago and they reconnected. Now here's the really weird bit: In Alice's Skype chat/contacts, Bob appears as (redacted, let's call it Eve), a name neither of them has ever heard of. In Bob's chat/contacts, Alice appears as the same Eve. What. the. elephant? ? ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A family member, let's call him Bob, uses Skype on a Ubuntu laptop I set up, to communicate daily with a friend, let's call her Alice, a user of small iDevices who is several timezones and a hemisphere away. This has worked pretty well for a decade or so, mostly interrupted by Alice's propensity for breaking her toys. Recently there was a hiatus of a few weeks, where Alice couldn't get into her Skype account. She set up a new one in her real name a couple of days ago and they reconnected. Now here's the really weird bit: In Alice's Skype chat/contacts, Bob appears as (redacted, let's call it Eve), a name neither of them has ever heard of. In Bob's chat/contacts, Alice appears as the same Eve. What. the. elephant? ? ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Skype support is really helpful. I've had issues in the past, and they have responded within 24 hours. Please ask your family members to log a support request there.
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I get it, but I'm channeling Alice, Bob and Eve from Cryptographers Anonymous.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A family member, let's call him Bob, uses Skype on a Ubuntu laptop I set up, to communicate daily with a friend, let's call her Alice, a user of small iDevices who is several timezones and a hemisphere away. This has worked pretty well for a decade or so, mostly interrupted by Alice's propensity for breaking her toys. Recently there was a hiatus of a few weeks, where Alice couldn't get into her Skype account. She set up a new one in her real name a couple of days ago and they reconnected. Now here's the really weird bit: In Alice's Skype chat/contacts, Bob appears as (redacted, let's call it Eve), a name neither of them has ever heard of. In Bob's chat/contacts, Alice appears as the same Eve. What. the. elephant? ? ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
OT : Have you been in cybersecurity lately ?