Hack of the day: Use Skype for home video surveillance

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In the future, everyone will be watching everyone. That sounds a bit crazy (or scary) but it could be happening earlier and without expensive investment.

In the Skype forums, a new member was asking the community how to remotely launch the Skype client on its personal computer and start the video conferencing functionality to check if something has changed in his home.

Did the request get fulfilled? Yes. The trick is to open two separate accounts and set the home Skype client to automatically answer incoming calls and automatically open video calling.

Oct 3, 2006 | By Nuno

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