Skype is a law unto itself. Remember that these are the guys who developed 'illegal' file sharing technology and don't feel it prudent to ever enter the USA. Skype port-hops in a way that makes it REALLY hard to detect. Check it for yourself by making a H.323 call, a SIP call and a Skype call and monitoring the results with something like Ethereal. SIP and H.323 both appear as calls - Skype never appears as a call. This is what pisses the FEDs off. Legal encryption can always be broken - this kind of shit is tricky.
Notebooks out, plagiarists!
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Skype is a law unto itself. Remember that these are the guys who developed 'illegal' file sharing technology and don't feel it prudent to ever enter the USA. Skype port-hops in a way that makes it REALLY hard to detect. Check it for yourself by making a H.323 call, a SIP call and a Skype call and monitoring the results with something like Ethereal. SIP and H.323 both appear as calls - Skype never appears as a call. This is what pisses the FEDs off. Legal encryption can always be broken - this kind of shit is tricky. Notebooks out, plagiarists!