On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan < prasannatsmku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >From the link > http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html > it looks like skype is reading user's data. So be beware of that. > Arch Wiki suggests making a new user for skype: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Skype#Use_Skype_with_special_user You can call skype from the other user from terminal, you just need to add following to your ~/.bashrc file: ##use skype alias skype='xhost +local: && sudo -u skype /usr/bin/skype' ##don't allow skype to touch /home/user umask 066 > Regards, > Prasanna Kumar > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
