Skype’s code has been hacked and its innards published on the Web by Efim Bushmanov, a self-described freelance researcher in the tiny Komi Republic, about 870 miles from Moscow. His aim, he said, was to make Skype open source. Another goal: to find “friends who can spend many hours for completely reverse it” because he hadn’t finished the task. The move has Skype fuming. “We are taking all necessary steps to prevent or defeat nefarious attempts to subvert Skype’s experience,” said spokesperson Sravanthi Agrawal.
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FOSS Hacker's Reverse-Engineering Has Skype Seething
Posted by: Richard Adhikari June 7, 2011 05:00 AMSkype’s code has been hacked and its innards published on the Web by Efim Bushmanov, a self-described freelance researcher in the tiny Komi Republic, about 870 miles from Moscow. His aim, he said, was to make Skype open source. Another goal: to find “friends who can spend many hours for completely reverse it” because he hadn’t finished the task. The move has Skype fuming. “We are taking all necessary steps to prevent or defeat nefarious attempts to subvert Skype’s experience,” said spokesperson Sravanthi Agrawal.