Posted Sep 3, 2009 8:39 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)
Parent article: A trojan for Skype
There has been several interesting reverse engineering efforts of Skype. Read the references on the Wikipedia article "Skype protocol".
One of the researchers made an exploit to the protocol, which should scare any administrator because of the firewall-piercing nature of the application. I think the protocol has changed since then, but it gives an insight in how obfuscated it all is.