Skype Me!
James Gaskin recently spoke with Michael Gough, author of "Skype Me!" Following is an edited transcript of that conversation. You may also listen to the original interview here.
James Gaskin: Michael Gough is a network computer security consultant, and he is the lead author on a book called Skype Me! Published by Syngress. He also runs the skypetips.com website which, not surprisingly, is all about Skype and tips and probably a lot of the research you did for the book, winds up here on this website.
Michael Gough: That is correct. Yeah, it was kind of take all the minutia of news and blogs and everything and say all right, what do people practically need to know? And that's what the website's chartered after.
Gaskin: I imagine you get a lot of feedback from the skypetips.com website. Do you have a number one, two or three question that comes up more often than others that you'd like to talk about?
Gough: I would say one of the top questions I get, of course, is using Skype without a computer. That's one that comes up quite a bit, like using an ATA, or I don't want to leave my computer on, or things like that. That seems to be a pretty popular subject. I think, moving towards what we see with Vonage, and Packet8, very similar to that kind of technology.
Gaskin: That's one of the things that aggravated me early on at this, is that press reports would lump broadband phones and under that they would lump Skype and Vonage, and Packet8, and not make any difference between the two. And I think there's a considerable difference between the two. I particularly think Vonage and their competitors are kind of evolutionary for phone service. And I think Skype is really revolutionary in their approach to telephonic communications. Would you agree with that? Can you add to my one level of understanding, and add some more to that?
Gough: Yeah. I think that's actually one of the best descriptions I've heard, to be honest, I really like that. I think I'm going to steal it, if you don't mind.
Gaskin: Give me credit now and then, at least.
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