The blogsphere is buzzing with a report made by a Skype competitor — who also helpfully provided screenshots illustrating the event — that Skype’s protocol has been cracked by a Chinese engineering team. Charlie Paglee, head of VoIP provider Vozin Communications, claims in his blog, that a team at an unnamed research institution reportedly reversed engineered the company’s peer-to-peer phone system, allowing non-Skype users to place or receive a call to a Skype subscriber using its own client.
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Chinese Engineers Reportedly Crack Skype’s Code
Posted by: Erika Morphy July 17, 2006 02:29 PMThe blogsphere is buzzing with a report made by a Skype competitor — who also helpfully provided screenshots illustrating the event — that Skype’s protocol has been cracked by a Chinese engineering team. Charlie Paglee, head of VoIP provider Vozin Communications, claims in his blog, that a team at an unnamed research institution reportedly reversed engineered the company’s peer-to-peer phone system, allowing non-Skype users to place or receive a call to a Skype subscriber using its own client.