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Well, Skype has vigorous anti-debugging measures to keep most of its unwarranted behavior under wraps. And when MS bought Skype, it was taken down for a signifi
by goldenkey 9y ago
Well, Skype has vigorous anti-debugging measures to keep most of its unwarranted behavior under wraps. And when MS bought Skype, it was taken down for a significant time, thought to be when the NSA [etPhoneHome] method calls were added. It's all just conjecture though... But I'd stick with other voip/telcos. I really can't blame China for not wanting their people subject to what is pretty obvious US spying.
- PuffinBlue 9y agoWasn't it taken down to be rearchitected (spelling?) to a "superhub" peer to peer setup? Kind of a half way house between fully 'cloud' (centralised) like it is now and fully peer to peer like it was before MS bought it? I guess that doesn't preclude it becoming part of PRISM and I might be misremembering the details too.
- goldenkey 9y agoSomething like that. But reverse engineers (who I trust) after busting through all the anti-debugger protection, and looking at the protocol, seemed to be of the opinion that the app was way too reliant on Skype's servers and way too obfuscated for just IP protection alone. Better open source than sorry. Skype is not to be trusted. At least most EXEs you can debug but Skype has literally wiretrapped and packed the crap out of their exe for unworthy reasons. Stallman would consider it untrustworthy computing, let alone the networking part.