Tuesday August 5
 
22:58
 
Skype Exposes Kids To Porn

I am really getting sick of getting these pornographic “Contact details requests” on Mac Skype. It wouldn’t be so bad if they actually wanted to shag me but they only want to use me for my money.

Seriously though, I cannot find a way to prevent these appearing on Skype on my Apple Mac – unless I hide myself from being online altogether or choose Do Not Disturb, which means friends cannot contact me.

I wrote to Skype support and they gave me Windows only instructions on how to block contact pop-ups – stupid arses, given that they know my version of Skype is Mac. When I followed that up with “There is no such configuration option for Mac”, they ignored it.

While Windows users have an option to block these pop-ups, Mac users don’t. I don’t have Skype-Me set, so I am not receiving them because of that.

There is a serious side to this: If this was a family Mac and children were playing games or using iPhoto, the “calienter mujer – sexy dirty bitch xxx” pop-up could appear at any time. That’s bad enough, but since the default is to let dirty bitch see my computer is online and allow contact, kids could very easily get exposed to pornographic chats by just clicking OK.

I’ve tried raising this again with Skype and they didn’t respond. I contacted the news desk at The Register, The Guardian, and The Sun and only The Register responded – however it seems they then got sidetracked with the latest iPhone rumour and stopped following it up.

Skype exposing kids – and innocent me – to pornography. It’s only a matter of time before pedophiles catch on and I hope then that Skype gets sued to the heavens in a high profile case – because if they ever claim they didn’t know, I’ll be the first one providing evidence that they did know they were exposing children to sex and refused to do anything about it… and I’ll be keeping my emails to show The Register, The Guardian, and The Sun also ignored the issue.