Blocking Skype
You aggitatin’ my dots? Turns out, Holland America is blocking Skype – wholesale. I went to download the VoIP client, only to be met with a message (on Skype.com) saying that it was blocked. I can only assume they’re blocking Skype traffic, too – considering they charge (no joke) over $7 per minute for voice calls from your room phone. It ain’t cheap to communicate on a cruise ship. I’ve got Google Talk installed, so I might try dialing through that in a few minutes – assuming they’re not going to cut in on the call. So much for recording a conversation with Pluggd from sea.
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7 Comments
Drew Olanoff
August 29th, 2006
at 5:27pm
Those tricky mofos. How about gizmo?
Greg Smith
August 29th, 2006
at 7:50pm
At least they have enough technical knowledge to know what skype is.
Christian Burns
August 30th, 2006
at 10:22am
Than just do a walking around segment with your iRiver CLIX voice recorder. And of course start the recording by plugging plugg and your usual godaddy code chris1 :)
Dean Collins
September 3rd, 2006
at 7:56pm
Ahh Chris, what can I say. Time to install an Asterisk server.
I’ve told you time and time again, use a vpn back to your server and then dial straight out into the pstn no probs.
Cheers,
Dean
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Chun-Ming Leung
July 23rd, 2007
at 10:34pm
It maybe a little bit late, but our laboratory found some tips to make the blocking of Skype more intelligence. A socket level blocking.
This is the Information Security Laboratory, CUHK in Hong Kong,
The paper titled:
“Network Forensic on Encrypted Peer-to-Peer VoIP Traffics and The Detection, Blocking, and Prioritization of Skype Traffics”;
Submitted to the 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, Mar 2007; Accepted, 8th May 2007
With our page for reference:
http://personal.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~cmleung5/index.html
Gnimsh
October 24th, 2007
at 9:52am
Hey Chris, just thought you might like to hear about this little gadget called MagicJack. Its a USB phone jack you can get from http://www.magicjack.com and then it plugs right into your laptop. It comes with a softphone and the ability to plug in a regular (American) phone to it. It gives you an American phone number that people can call for free, and also allows you to make phone calls to US numbers for free. Did it I mention it costs $39.99, including a free one year subscription, and then $19.99 per year after that? I’m currently studying abroad in Austria and it gives me a great way for my friends and family back in the States to call me cheaply…not all of them use Skype, or don’t have a computer handy when they DO want to call me. Its well worth it.
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May 20th, 2008
at 3:21pm
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