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A trojan for SkypeA trojan for SkypePosted Sep 4, 2009 20:42 UTC (Fri) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)In reply to: A trojan for Skype by droundy Parent article: A trojan for Skype a SELinux policy is unlikely to keep skype from sending audio and video even when you aren't on the network... it's not just your calls that might be compromised, but anything you mention (or do) in the presence of a computer running skype That's not really true. A decent policy can prevent a rogue skype process from reading files that it has no business reading, so the only things it should be able to transmit is data it already has (e.g. the audio of your call)
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A trojan for Skype Posted Sep 5, 2009 19:25 UTC (Sat) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
> so the only things it should be able to transmit is data it already has
(e.g. the audio of your call)
If it's allowed to read the mic for the call, why it couldn't eavesdrop
A trojan for Skype Posted Sep 14, 2009 11:11 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
> If it's allowed to read the mic for the call, why it couldn't eavesdrop
> you always?
You could probably modify your policy on the fly to allow/deny access to
But as an X app it has a lot of means to snarf information, anyway ... or
I think the best option today is a VM sandbox. Or a free alternative.
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