[Freeswitch-users] skype reverse engineered

Madovsky infos at madovsky.org
Fri Jun 3 19:20:12 MSD 2011


tha'ts clear, not sure it will be a good future for them so....
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven Ayre 
  To: FreeSWITCH Users Help 
  Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 11:08 AM
  Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] skype reverse engineered


  There's nothing open about about Skype. The protocol is entirely closed and proprietary.

  They offer an API to talk to the Skype client from another program running on the same machine, but that's about it. mod_skypopen works by running one or more copies of the official Skype client, creating a virtual sound card and communicating with that from FreeSWITCH.

  -Steve




  On 3 June 2011 16:02, Madovsky <infos at madovsky.org> wrote:

    some logical I don't understand.
    why is it need reverse engineering if Skype had an open source community until today ?
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Gopal krishnan 
      To: FreeSWITCH Users Help 
      Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:54 AMS
      Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] skype reverse engineered


      http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2011/06/03/skype-denounces-nefarious-reverse-engineering-40092982/


      On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:58 PM, mazilo <Nabble at slickdeals.endjunk.com> wrote:


        Steven Ayre wrote:
        > On the more optimistic note I have seen a good argument that there are
        > enough hardware Skype phones with Skype that they can't easily block older
        > versions without breaking a lot of devices.

        If Skype decides to block older version of software, then all it needs is to
        furnish Skype Phone hardware manufacturers with a new code to come up with a
        new firmware to support new Skype version. Then, hackers will start to
        reversed engineer on the new version. And, the cat/mouse chase begins.

        OTOH, it looks like the source was released to
        https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource/downloads GitHUB  on
        6/2/11. let's see how fast it will become a Linux compilable
        package/plugin/module. I won't be surprised to see a working
        mod_skype_re(versed engineered) soon if Anthony and/or FS developers will
        decide to port the source into an FS module.

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