Comments on: Skype May No Longer Be Secure

By: James Wilson

James Wilson — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:27:56 +0000

To Andrei and others who think similarly about needing to get the “real version” of skype:

Skype is closed source, therefore, you cannot ever be sure there are no backdoors, and you have no way to know how well it secures you.

If you are concerned at all about privacy or security, you would use open source software only.

By: Andrei Buiu

Andrei Buiu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:04:03 +0000

You should use a proxy to get the real version. I think it’s very wrong to distribute such a version of Skype.

By: Sampi

Sampi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:08:13 +0000

Also, when I try to get to the Skype website from here, I am automatically redirected to http://skype.tom.com and there is no english version link. Thank god I could get the safe version from the Ubuntu repositories.

And concerning the issue, this link might be of interest.

By: Sampi

Sampi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:05:20 +0000

I’m currently living in China and I use Skype all the time. I find these privacy violations appalling and wish Ebay would do something about them. The censoring and monitoring is one of the most obnoxious things about using the internet in China.

By: James Wilson

James Wilson — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:34:20 +0000

It has long been known that governments and large corps have access to the encryption keys of skype. They are hard coded into the program.

Always remember: If you cannot see the source, you cannot trust the author. Period.

By: Nestor

Nestor — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:14:22 +0000

Although I too think that updating a version that’s incompatible with such things described above is the greatest idea, I don’t know why I don’t think they’ll be doing it sometime soon…
This is probably not a “favor” for e-bay, who knows, maybe they’re getting paid some extra $$$ for letting them manipulate their code and produce a “new” unsafe version of skype…
Anyways, say goodbye to your privacy!!