is skype demise a vishious rumor?
burt henry
Skype with in a few months. Is this an obscure improbable case, an
urban legend among badly informed blind geeks, or a real danger?
I read a fare amount of syber-tech news, and get rs s and e-mail updates
on some of the legal crap that effects info-tech and the INTERNET, and
have not heard of this. I will google it, but if anyone has the skinny....?
Burt Henry
John Doe
According to the summaries at the following link search results,
apparently whatever it was, was between eBay and Skype (or maybe
between Skype's original founders and eBay), and that the lawsuit has
been resolved as of early this month.
Brian Gaff
owned, and what the authors kept ahold of. The problem was I think that Ebay
wanted the cracked encryption and the authors said go take a hike..
I'd imagine somewhere along the line its the USA wanting to be able to crack
all personal communications, so it may well flare up again.
Brian
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chris mcmillan
<burt1...@gmail.com> writes
using Skype (they happen to be visually impaired though I also have
sighted friends out there). They had heard that Skype had gone bust so
I had a look round and eventually came up with an article dated January
2009 that said the *owner* of Skype (and a few other companies I'd never
heard of, as he's a Dane) had gone *personally bankrupt* then. I've
heard nothing about Skype as a business going bust and I listen to a lot
of the BBC's business news output every day.
Sincerely Chris
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http://www.oneplusone.org.cn
burt henry
On 11/29/2009 6:01 caf�, Brian Gaff wrote:
> As far as I am aware, it boiled down to clarifying what Ebay actually
> owned, and what the authors kept ahold of. The problem was I think that Ebay
> wanted the cracked encryption and the authors said go take a hike..
This was seemingly settled a couple of times, but reared its head again,
so I'm not at all sure that this won't continue in one form another for
a while. (done a little reading since my first post)
> I'd imagine somewhere along the line its the USA wanting to be able to crack
> all personal communications, so it may well flare up again.
>
>
> Brian
>
I recall a couple of years ago reading about some Euro .govs wanting
skype to give up the secrets of their encryption,(Italy and
Germany I think), and what no one was saying at the time is that Skype
did not have the legal right to give up the API, and they didn't even
really know how themselves. There is a Co., think German that rents a
decoder ap/spyware package that is either directly manually installed on
a suspect's computer, or slipped in by the usual botnet-builder's
tactics. The police that use this rent the program at a very steep
price/don't remember all the details; so no one is listening to large
quantities of skype calls yet.
If anyone is interested I remember reading onabout this on ZEDnet
within the last year. I think skype as a keyword would be enough to get
the search results.
Thanks all for responding.
Burt