Skype apologizes for global blackout

Paul D. Levine: Skype Administrator: Hello dear users of Skype, due to the extremely large number of subscribers to Skype, now numbering 800 million, our server has serious difficulties. Now launched a campaign to delete unused Skype accounts. Send this message to at least 15 of their subscribers who are on line to show us that you are an active user of Skype. If you do so not do it within 2 days you will be designated as inactive Skype user and your account will be frozen for an indefinite period of time—

Millions of people around the globe have been hit by an outage at the popular internet phone service Skype. Users as far afield as Japan, Europe and the US have all reported problems. Skype apologises for losing half of daily call traffic. The company which prides itself on providing relatively reliable service last suffered a major outage in 2007. "We take outages like this really seriously and apologise for the inconvenience users are having," Tony Bates, Skype chief executive officer told BBC News. "Right now it looks like clients are coming on and offline and sometimes they are crashing in the middle of calls. We are deep in the middle of investigating the cause of the problem and have teams working hard to remedy the situation," Mr Bates said.

On Skype's Twitter account, the company said their "engineers and site operations team are working non-stop to get things back to normal".

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Thank You Carol .



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mudra

Skype slowly recovers from global blackout
People using Skype Around 20 million people a day use the Skype internet calls service

The free internet phone service Skype is slowly coming back online after an outage that affected millions of people around the globe.

The firm's engineers are still working to fix the problem, which first started at around 2030 GMT on 22 December.

Skype said the fault had been caused by a "software issue" on critical parts of its network.

The firm told the BBC that it was currently handling 12.5 million phone calls, 50% of its normal traffic.

"We take outages like this really seriously and apologise for the inconvenience," Skype chief Tony Bates told BBC News.

In a blog post, the company said that it was now starting to see an increase in the number of people using its network.

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Probably testing their internet kill switch infrastructure

And they chose Christmas time to do that????

Anchor wrote:Probably testing their internet kill switch infrastructure

Yep - You got It Holmes - Smack on...

Skype is free and easy to use plus it goes through unrestricted and free of snooping by Intel Agencies...

Enough said ?

They want it down...

Personally - I don't have 15 People in My Skype Account so that willl mean that I will be placed as Inactive and unable to use the Service soon.

Mission accomplished if You ask Me as I, and I gather many others - Will not be able to comply....

Okay, let's get real here. If folks don't have the numbers (other people to contact) just eliminate Skype now from your hard drive and reinstall it later after the purge. I've gone months and not used Skype yet when I needed it, I needed it. I'm also not sure if you need fifteen people or fifteen messages in the next two days. You could just send 15 messages too.

Mercuriel wrote:

Anchor wrote:Probably testing their internet kill switch infrastructure

Yep - You got It Holmes - Smack on...

Skype is free and easy to use plus it goes through unrestricted and free of snooping by Intel Agencies...

Enough said ?

They want it down...

Personally - I don't have 15 People in My Skype Account so that willl mean that I will be placed as Inactive and unable to use the Service soon.

Mission accomplished if You ask Me as I, and I gather many others - Will not be able to comply....

I will not bother to forward that message, even I received it few minutes ago. It's fake, nothing more. If they want to know if I'm active member, they can easily check it otherway.

How do you know it is fake?

Another thing.. it would be interesting to see how fast it covers the globe.

About all theories of closing, resctricting or monitoring internet...well I have an idea how to perfectly accomplish this. And I'm sure that "they" have already had this idea too

First and only, "they" will just have to cut off the global electricity for a while. Easy to accomplish if:

1. "They" pray for a huge and massive sun burst of plasma to hit the earth.
2. "They" don't have to pray if "they" can produce one (hmm, could be possible, what do you think?)
3. Or just cut off the main electrical distribution points worldwide (also easy to accomplish).

This will not only cut off the internet itself by accomplishing this, but also almost all other possible ways of communication (mobile phones etc.) This way, "they" could mannage to cut off about 98% of all possible communication worldwide.

Second, while the world is in panic and struggle to figure out what's happening, you can easily establish the already prepared ways of alternative communication, but only for the chosen ones of course. Does such alternative ways of communication exists? You better bet these exists

So why panic? If they really wanted to do this, "they" would've already done this by now. But...

...you can also bet that this scenry is not in "their" interest too. Why?

Well think about that...If I would be "them", I would think twice if I would dare to let more then 7 billion people worldwide without control. Or do you think that "they" will destroy "their" with purpose and since many thousand years established modern slave world to just give up the control of the humanity?

Because, logicaly thought, if "they" allow the above mentioned to come true..."they've" lost the control. Definitelly. And for a long time. Which could cost "them" a lot. It would cost "them"...

...our freedom.

with respect
malletzky

Carol wrote:How do you know it is fake?

Another thing.. it would be interesting to see how fast it covers the globe.

CHeck their website. No announcment. If meant to be real, they would've officially annouce this. I can read the energy signature of one of the so called "chain letter" here...


EDIT: but I could also be wrong and have my account deleted by sunday

malletzky wrote:

Mercuriel wrote:

Anchor wrote:Probably testing their internet kill switch infrastructure

Yep - You got It Holmes - Smack on...

Skype is free and easy to use plus it goes through unrestricted and free of snooping by Intel Agencies...

Enough said ?

They want it down...

Personally - I don't have 15 People in My Skype Account so that willl mean that I will be placed as Inactive and unable to use the Service soon.

Mission accomplished if You ask Me as I, and I gather many others - Will not be able to comply....

I will not bother to forward that message, even I received it few minutes ago. It's fake, nothing more. If they want to know if I'm active member, they can easily check it otherway.

btw...I didn't receive this message from Skype (it came from Mudra). All other sources are not thrustworthy...as they're able to send this message to all their users if they will.

There is no panic here if that is the impression that You've gotten of what I posted above. I was just stating the facts in My Personal Situation if that was the case with Skype. I have other - Older - Methods should this really occur in any meaningful way.

That said - The Effort is not to shut the Net Down - Just to restrict It and Control It in a way that They can prevent real Truth from getting out to the Masses. So in terms of Skype and It's interruption of Service lately - Its likely DOS Attacks that are causing the increased Server Load.

Skype is one of the Thorn's in Their side simply by the way the Service works.

Mercuriel wrote:There is no panic here if that is the impression that You've gotten of what I posted above. I was just stating the facts in My Personal Situation if that was the case with Skype. I have other - Older - Methods should this really occur in any meaningful way.

That said - The Effort is not to shut the Net Down - Just to restrict It and Control It in a way that They can prevent real Truth from getting out to the Masses. So in terms of Skype and It's interruption of Service lately - Its likely DOS Attacks that are causing the increased Server Load.

Skype is one of the Thorn's in Their side simply by the way the Service works.

Merc, I've had no impression about any panic here on this forum. These were only my thoughts about the global panic of cutting and restricting internet.

IMO, skype is not dangereous at all. I'm only restricted to contact my contacts...and that's all. But the internet, with so many websites and forums about the truth...that's another story.

Affirm - No worries...

I just wanted to be sure that I wasn't interpreted as panicing because I am not. In fact - I rarely panic at anything anymore LOL...

That said - I suppose thats a good thing...

This is one reason I have a rotary phone landline which works very well when the power goes out.

Carol wrote:Paul D. Levine: Skype Administrator: Hello dear users of Skype,due to the extremely large number of subscribers to Skype, now numbering 800 million, our server has serious difficulties. Now launched a campaign to delete unused Skype accounts. Send this message to at least 15 of their subscribers who are on line to show us that you are an active user of Skype. If you do so not do it within 2 days you will be designated as inactive Skype user and your account will be frozen for an indefinite period of time—

This is almost certainly a hoax

I had a nice, cost free, skype conversation with my mum and brother last night (my time).

Asides from taking extra time to log in (several minutes) it was working fine.

It looked like a hoax to me but I wasn't taking chances...lol..sent those messages to my Skype contacts...just in case...lol