Internet video-chatting service Skype helps connect people across the globe -- but your representatives in Congress are banned from using it.House Democrats and Republicans have been tussling over whether to overhaul technology rules that prohibit lawmakers from using Skype to chat from their offices with the people they govern.
Their obstacle: A 2006 ban on running peer-to-peer applications behind House and Senate firewalls. Such programs allow computers to share files (remember Napster?), which could pose a security risk.Skype is a peer-to-peer (P2P) program, but its software is a different animal from the popular-with-pirates media swapping applications that gave the P2P field a reputation as the Internet's Wild West. While Skype users can send files directly to others, the company says it's impossible to share documents accidentally -- as users could with file-sharing programs like LimeWire.
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10 comments:
This sounds like it would be fun!!! to be able to see people while you are talking to them.
I LOVE SKYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I use it alllllllll the time with my friends! Me and D have tlked 4 like six hours using Skype! and for free! =D. Love this article. =P very niiice
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i think they should not do that.
No I don't think they should ban use from it cause what if we havent seen someone in a while and the arent comming home, skype is the only thing youcan see them by
its a good site
ya i had a friend who grandma wanted to know how to use that so she kept mess with him to show her!!!!!
-nigeria
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