Skype 1.0 available

Posted Feb 2, 2005 20:01 UTC (Wed) by quickening (guest, #14807)
Parent article: Skype 1.0 available

I have tried Skype. It works fine on my RH8 system. I became interested in Skype after reading about the lack of security with the alternatives. I personally believe open source security is better than closed - but where are the secure open source alternatives? I can not really trust a closed source version of an encrypted connection - no matter how good the encryption - since it could have back doors, but still it seems better than the alternatives. At least I can sand-box the client on linux.

Skype 1.0 available

Posted Feb 3, 2005 0:02 UTC (Thu) by gurulabs (subscriber, #10753) [Link]

You must not be too worried about security if you are still running RH8. It has been a very long time since official timely security updates have been published by Red Hat for it.

Possibly you are using the Fedora Legacy project for your security updates but the timeliness of that project has been pretty dismal.

Skype 1.0 available

Posted Feb 3, 2005 0:52 UTC (Thu) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] (1 responses)

Skype cannot be run under windows when softice is installed. So it is not only closed-source, it actively resists reverse engineering, leading me to believe it is probably 100 different trojan horses dressed up as a voice program. Perhaps now that it is available under linux, gdb will shed some light upon it.

Skype 1.0 available

Posted Feb 3, 2005 13:47 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

It is available under linux. Read the story.

Skype 1.0 available

Posted Feb 3, 2005 13:49 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Could you please give us more details of those rumored holes?

IAX is a nice protocol. Does not require opening half the firewall as a (naive) implementation of SIP does.