Right: Skype is completely closed source, and the developers have admitted that the only reason it is not open source, is because the security is too weak. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/voip_and_skype/page3.html and look at the bottom: "Would he[Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype] make Skype open-source? No - that would make its strong 1024 bit encryption and security vulnerable: "We could do it but only if we re-engineered the way it works and we don't have the time right now." This is merely security by obscurity. According to a security analysis presented at BlackHat, the code is protected with many layers of obfuscation and encryption, intended to prevent reversing. Here is relevant sections of the EULA( http://www.skype.com/company/legal/eula/):
4.1 *Utilization of Your computer.* You hereby acknowledge that the Skype Software may utilize the processor and bandwidth of the computer (or other applicable device) You are utilizing, for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between Skype Software users. So, basically, you accept the fact that Skype will use any and all resources to "facilitate communication". How does anyone know that there is not a backdoor that can bes used to access any machine running Skype. On 12/11/06, Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Dec 11, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Vim Visual wrote: > > > the proof ;) > > > > http://www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/skype.png > > > > I don't have any contacts under that nickname; therefore the list > > is empty... > > I would be careful with Skype. My father's Mandriva Linux PC was > trojaned using an outdated version of Skype as entry point. > > Maybe you should post a systrace policy along with how to use Skype > in OpenBSD ;-) > > regards, > Tobias W. > > -- "If I am laughing, check your backups."
