On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:09 -0700, Joel Gomberg wrote: > I thought Skype was P2P application Supposedly it is, but with closed source, you've no real idea what it's going to do. Even hacking software to reverse engineer it may only give you a partial picture, particularly if it's convoluted. The understood nature of Skype is that it spreads itself across a network in a group peers-to-peers technique (as used by many filesharing systems), where they co-ordinate other peers amongst themselves, but the end-to-end communication between two peers directly communicating with each other (i.e. a phone call) will be direct peer-to-peer, where possible, but perhaps not when its not possible (e.g. when firewalls get in the way of making direct connections). The gestalt behaviour does lend itself to all sorts of snooping, without having to plant trojans on individuals. All that's needed is for enough spy machines to be on-line within the network, and for them to act as the bigger nodes in the network, and they can keep tabs on what's going on around them. Moral of the story; don't conduct illegal business over it, don't conduct legal but confidential conversations over it; and if you're in one of those places where criticising the government has nasty repercussions, I wouldn't do that over it, either. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
