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Submission + - Skype Encryption Revealed (h-online.com)

Submitted by TSHTF on Thursday July 08, 2010 @04:26PM

TSHTF writes: Just weeks after Skype unveiled a public API for the service, a group of cryptographers led by Sean O'Neill have successfully reverse engineered the encryption used by the Skype protocol. Source code is available under a non-commercial license which details Skype's implementation of the RC4 cipher. Is it just a matter of time now until there is a true open-source Skype client?

Submission + - Microsoft steals code from top Asian microblog (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by TSHTF on Monday December 14, 2009 @09:30PM

TSHTF writes: Plurk reported today that Microsoft's new China MSN not only copied look and feel from its interface, but also copied raw code from Plurk's service. The story has been covered in multiple media sources. The software theft is more hypocritical, given Microsoft's past threats against Chinese software piracy.

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