A trojan for Skype [LWN.net]

A trojan for Skype

Posted Sep 14, 2009 11:11 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: A trojan for Skype by oak
Parent article: A trojan for Skype

> 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.

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