A little break

Happy New Year! Xeno is taking a few days off from blogging
to explore an underground city and to make plans for 2011.

China makes Skype illegal

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90860/7246526.html
Beyond protecting state owned carriers, is this move also to limit those who can spy on phone calls in China?  What happened with that Skype outage recently?

Earlier today Skype had gone down for millions of users. Skype has now issued a statement on how and why this happened. They explained that Skype relies on connections between millions of computers or phones. Some computers act as “Supernodes” which help locate the person that you are trying to connect to. For some reason today many users were taken offline because of a Skype version mismatch. So Skype engineers had to bring up many “mega-supernodes” to help counteract the downtime today. So if Skype isn’t up for you yet, it should be returning to normal shortly.

via techgoblin

What was that “problem affecting some versions of Skype”?