Anyone using Skype on FC11 ?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 15:12:59 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 17:54 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 15:07 -0700, jack craig wrote:
> > is the source open anywhere?
> 
> It's a closed source application.  That, and the various discovered
> nasties (never mind the ones that haven't, yet, been discovered, because
> it's closed source), are why it's not well regarded here.

Not to defend Skype, but let's keep a sense of proportion. Is the *phone
system* open source? Is it free from bugging?

(BTW there is no evidence to suggest that Skype conversations can be
overheard, as long as both ends are secured. That doesn't mean they
can't be, but the balance of probabilities seems to be against it for
the time being. Note that traffic analysis is another matter).

poc




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