On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 12:05 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: [...] > 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. Well said. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
