On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:28:58 +0100 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 30 August 2009 09:20:59 Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:09 -0700, Joel Gomberg wrote: > > > I thought Skype was P2P application > > > > Supposedly it is, but with closed source, you've no real idea what it's > > going to do. Even hacking software to reverse engineer it may only give > > you a partial picture, particularly if it's convoluted. > > Is there any initiative or attempts to reverse engineer its protocol? There have been but it uses every malware like trick of the book to self encrypt and the like. With virtual machines it isn't of course quite so safe any more. There are also some other awkward factors - The person who completely reverse engineers skype probably destroys it. If you can write a skype client than the spammers can write skype spam tools as well. - Skype appears to contain various law enforcement intercept facilities judging by the evidence - although mostly circumstantial. - The Skype business model depends upon interoperability not working (like early instant messaging systems), so you would expect a mix of protocol changes and thermonuclear level legal responses if the work was done in the USA or other countries with broken DMCA type laws. > programming... But surely *someone* does, is there any known attempt to do > this? I would imagine anyone doing so is keeping fairly quiet - there is big money on offer from the bad guys for skype trojans, intercepts and clients, while anyone on the good side fiddling with it faces jail and harrasment - a fine example of perverse economic incentives. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
