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RE: skype

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Tue Jun 7 11:44:22 2011

From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Raymond Burkholder <ray@oneunified.net>, 'NANOG Operators' Group'
	<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:44:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <02da01cc2520$bb5c6ec0$32154c40$@oneunified.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


> From: Raymond Burkholder [mailto:ray@oneunified.net]
>=20
> > I love how this story was published AFTER MSFT purchased them ;-)
> >
>=20
> http://plug2play.blogspot.com/2010/12/skypes-biggest-secret-
> revealed.html
>=20
> reverse engineering hack was reported back in mid December.

Indeed, but "reverse engineered" and "Egyptian government snooping Skype c=
alls" are quite different. Whilst some people may have rather foolishly re=
lied on Skype for privacy, this is now not going to happen. I doubt it'll =
make a big dent on the user base though.

--
Leigh Porter


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