Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Normally one just has to worry about theoretical problems with trojans > hidden inside binary programs like skype. In this case, it is quite > clear from looking at the traffic that skype was stealing user's > bandwidth for carrying totally unrelated 3rd-party voice traffic by > looping it into and out of the user's system. > > http://chris.pirillo.com/are-you-a-skype-supernode/ > > Just the fact that they are doing this makes me wonder what other stuff > they are pulling. > > (And yes, they *now* have a flag to turn off this trojan mode after all > the raised eyebrows.) That's exactly what I meant when I said their software abuses user computers as tunnel servers. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
