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When I got to work, I woke up the computer and was surprised to see the chat from home on the screen. I didn't realize that could happen.
This isn't really an issue, since I had to log in to my account both times. It's not as if someone could choose to eavesdrop without my login info. But it is a concern.
Lesson learned, be more careful. Log out, change passwords often, etc.
(It's not a platform-specific thing; one computer was a Mac and one was Windows.)
Any other things to watch out for with Skype?
If you happen to be chatting to some young lady on one machine .. and you wife sees it on the other machine .. it might become *somewhat* of an issue.;)
I have a friend who swaps between two bootable partitions on his computer, and has Skype installed on both. If we have a text chat while he is in one partition, then he boots into the other, the whole chat that occurred on the first partition appears on his screen as soon as Skype connects on the second one. And sometimes on mine too... even though my status in Skype hasn't changed in the meantime.
So I'm wondering, where is the chat stored? If my messages were already sent successfully from my machine, surely they are safely tucked into the history file by the time he has rebooted - ditto with what came to me from his other partition, which is of course, now off, and its history file is inaccessible to the copy of Skype now running. So it can't be coming from his computer.
It seems to point to it being held remotely somewhere - but why. And could this be a security issue, even though they say that chat is encrypted.
