Silver Needle in the Skype

Re:Silver Needle in the Skype by dlsspy on Saturday February 27, 2010 @04:20PM (#1155862)

This is insanity. They're giving away the software, but have put incredible amounts of engineering into making sure nobody can know how it works. The parts where they make money have little to nothing to do with this.

I've stopped paying for skype service because of the features they force me to have on. One of my "final straw" bugs has been opened since 2007. And it's trivial. How much anti-reverse engineering work has gone in since then?

I'm sure I'd pay them again if I could actually do my own build of a skype client with some of the behaviors I don't like modified.

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Re:Silver Needle in the Skype by MichaelGlass on Saturday February 27, 2010 @05:19PM (#1155936)

one of the nice things about skype is that it always works. Have a firewall? Skype will find a way through it. If it were completely reverse engineered, it might be easier to filters its traffic. they say they can DOS skype on a network but at what cost?

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Re:Silver Needle in the Skype by dlsspy on Saturday February 27, 2010 @08:11PM (#1156169)

I don't agree that exploiting firewall bugs justifies so much effort in keeping me from understanding what's running on my computer vs. just making it better.

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