Re: Your opinion on Skype

[Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () gmail com>]

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