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		rcxdude on Aug 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) Skype wasn't shoddy per se, but it was extremely aggressively peer-to-peer, which resulted in exactly this kind of exposure of connection information.

sascha_sl on Aug 25, 2021 [–]

I'd say exposing the info of any user, even if they're not on your contact list, is pretty shoddy.

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