A trojan for Skype [LWN.net]

A trojan for Skype

Posted Sep 5, 2009 19:25 UTC (Sat) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: A trojan for Skype by Tet
Parent article: A trojan for Skype

> 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
you always?

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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
the microphone device. But I guess soldering a switch to the microphone
cable would be a better UI.

But as an X app it has a lot of means to snarf information, anyway ... or
is X-ACE already sufficiently deployed?

I think the best option today is a VM sandbox. Or a free alternative.