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Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

Posted by Soulskill on from the trade-secret-my-son dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears Microsoft's Skype Division is cracking down on reverse-engineering of the Skype client. Skype recently rolled out a new set of APIs for integration into other desktop applications, but they have issued multiple DMCA takedown notices to a researcher publishing open-source code to send Skype messages."

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  1. Idiots... by dev343 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Instead of fixing this gaping security hole, they go after those people...