Contributed by dhartmei on from the delicious-press dept.
A systems administrator in the United Arab Emirates has come up with a simple method to prevent a popular internet telephony program from being used.
The technical audience will find more details in Wael Ghandour's original post on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, but Sam's article contains this nice quote:
"I chose OpenBSD as my platform of implementation for various reasons, most important of which would be its rock-hard stability and excellent security record over the years," Mr Ghandour said. "The bug-audit process of the OpenBSD team is second to none, and the releases are timely and packed with great features."
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By Anonymous Coward (207.171.180.101) on
Using OpenBSD for evil purposes: Bad. :(
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By corentin (193.252.196.77) on
"But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia."
;-)
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By Jason Crawford (65.174.217.59) jasonrcrawford@gmail.com on
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By Anonymous Pedophile (80.72.254.231) on
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By m0rf (68.104.17.51) on
It uses your bandwidth even when you're not on a call, the basic p2p model of "sharing". It also uses various methods to get around firewalls using http/https, "CONNECT", etc.
Blocking Skype is a good thing.
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By Anonymous Coward (82.71.120.74) on
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By jum (194.209.18.253) on
no source code, no way to know where/how data travel, and I dislike
programs trying to find open ports, apart from some basic audits.
we have opensource projetcs for voice over ip, we have nice security
mechanisms. so I just see skype as another m$n-kind.
By Anonymous Coward (24.207.218.168) on
By Lars Hansson (203.65.245.7) lars@unet.net.ph on
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By sthen (81.168.66.226) on
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By corentin (81.56.152.193) on
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10769
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By Anonymous Coward (213.41.147.159) on
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By corentin (81.56.152.193) on
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By jum (62.210.96.105) on
this skype program.....hey but what does it do really?
I already see m$ systems deployed everywhere as a nice
trojan horse for companies.
Remember Intel and his ID privacy problem?
This is more a question of freedom than security.
One system to govern all of them...(sounds scary :-)
By m0rf (68.104.17.51) on
"Officials at Skype Technologies S.A., maker of the popular VOIP (voice over IP) tool, admit that their technology is not designed to be an enterprise-grade tool and say that IT administrators are free to block its use if they are concerned."
By m0rf (68.104.17.51) on
By Anonymous Coward (213.164.3.90) on
For those that don't want to read it (it's not worth it), here is the summary:
"Using squid, we blocked all HTTP CONNECT requests to numberic ips".
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By Anonymous Coward (80.227.59.25) on
By Anonymous Coward (68.106.232.57) on
Yet another "wonderful" write up on a trivial task. What's next? "HOWTO: measuring relative network latency between my host and another host on the Internet using ping.exe?"
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By Anonymous Coward (195.229.242.53) on