On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 10:26 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> My recent inquiries have raised the unsettling possibility
> that recent Skype clients may be designed to permit remote exploitation of
> host systems by unauthorised entities.
Generally entities, authorised by governments, have been doing back door
entries over the Internet since at least 1995. Its staggering what has
been happening, staggering how its done, staggering that every, so it
seems, network hardware device has a 'backdoor' - sometimes it is
mentioned in the documentation or discovered by chatting with service
personnel.
Better never to touch proprietary closed-source software. Don't forget
M$ Windoze with 3-knocks-and-anyone-is-in software. It caused a friend
to get a nasty virus about 10 years ago just by being connected to the
Internet and NOT downloading anything at all. He didn't even use his
browser.
Skype piggy-backs on to a lot of different, and unknown to the caller,
computer systems. Try the grown-up version called SIP. It has open
source products and it caters for voice and video.
Big companies always fully co-operate with demands from Big Brother but
never ever boast about their acquiescence. The encryption algorithm for
GSM mobile phones was deliberately downgraded ..... We live in the
Information Age and Big Brother wants information.
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