In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:

>
> [perhaps off topic, but interesting security implications?]
>
> I wonder if backdoors are installed to comply with
> government & law enforcement requirements.  In the US,
> Sen. Jay Rockefeller proposes to allow the POTUS to shutdown
> public & private Internet for any reason they want?
>
> Well back to Skype in the news:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/skype_trojan_source_code/
>
> Fact or hype?
>
> FWIW,
> Dan


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FC
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