-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-05-03 at 12:19 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
Skype "searches for in your computer"? ???
Bypassing the firewall is the beauty of skype, a documented feature.
Firewall traversal is not difficult. Skype is a community supported protocol,
Say what? Community supported!? It is closed source, man. The method is known, more or less, because it has been reverse engineered, but it is certainly not "community suported".
not dissimilar from BitTorrent in concept. If you have skype running and you are not behind a firewall (or a port is forwarded inward) you provide routing for encrypted traffic for other community users. Your machine is not at risk due to this traffic because it is all encrypted. As is your traffic.
After you have a look af the discussion on the wikipedia page, for instance, you will start to know what are the security issues of having skype in use in an organization. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIHQ5RtTMYHG2NR9URAh8+AJwKLO6DTVntqrf/Z1tXb2wnZlYAGgCeJfy8 C5g35d9KAJW7TPSCQFgTriI= =V12X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org