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Re: Your opinion on Skype
From: Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:22:59 -0700
And don't any of you krazy kids try to attach a debugger like Ollydbg or SoftIce to Skype under W32, because it will cause Skype to exit...not to mention likely violating the EULA. It *might* be different under *NIX were one inclined to break the EULA and use tools like ptrace, etc. Also of interest, users posted workarounds to the debugger issue with SoftIce were deleted from the Skype Forums <http://forum.skype.com> by Skype Forum admins with the reason that the developers had experienced *bad things* from folks using debuggers on their past project, Kazaa. At best, that move stikes me as highly presumptive in dictating what users may run on their boxen...at worst it smacks of nothing less than of technical censorship driven by fear. Thanks, --scm On 8/30/05, Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () gmail com> wrote:
Oh yeah, and do you *really* trust a company to produce *secure* software when there are discrepencies between public advisories and those advisories listed on the Skype security advisory website? http://skype.com/security/advisories.html has THREE posted security advisories. But a quick search at http://nvd.nist.gov shows Skype has FIVE public vulnerabilities. This kind of *oversight* doesn't exactly give me the warm fuzzies... Thanks, --scm
Current thread:
- FW: Your opinion on Skype Joe George (Aug 22)
- Re: Your opinion on Skype Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi (Aug 23)
- Re: Your opinion on Skype Shawn Merdinger (Aug 30)
- Re: FW: Your opinion on Skype cc (Aug 29)
- Re: FW: Your opinion on Skype Michael Puchol (Aug 30)
- RE: FW: Your opinion on Skype David Gillett (Aug 30)
- Re: FW: Your opinion on Skype Michael Puchol (Aug 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: FW: Your opinion on Skype Joe George (Aug 30)
- RE: Your opinion on Skype Roger A. Grimes (Aug 30)
- Re: Your opinion on Skype Shawn Merdinger (Aug 31)
- Re: Your opinion on Skype Shawn Merdinger (Aug 31)
- Re: Your opinion on Skype Shawn Merdinger (Aug 31)
- Re: Your opinion on Skype Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi (Aug 23)