{"id":338,"date":"2006-07-17T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T05:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/07\/17\/skype-protocol-breached\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T05:29:37","slug":"skype-protocol-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/07\/17\/skype-protocol-breached\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype protocol breached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A <strong>Chinese <\/strong>company has claimed that it has <strong>reverse-engineered <\/strong><strong>Skype\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s VoIP protocol<\/strong>, and has announced that it will release it some time in August. The <strong>breach <\/strong>allows the <strong>company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s software <\/strong>to place PC-to-PC calls <strong>over <\/strong>the Skype network, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s No 1 Internet calling service that has over 100 million users across the world.<\/p>\n<p>A blog entry by <strong>Charlie Paglee <\/strong>on July 13 on the VoIPWiki blog said that he received a call from an <strong>unnamed <\/strong>Chinese company on his Skype network using <strong>its own protocol <\/strong>rather than the official Skype client software.<\/p>\n<p>Paglee wrote: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>Today I received a call through Skype from a friend at a company in China, except he told me he was not using Skype to call me. His company has reverse engineered the Skype protocol and he wanted to call me in the US to see how it worked between physically distant IP addresses. We talked for nine minutes before the call dropped. I called him back using  Skype and we spoke for three m4ore minutes<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1042048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese company has claimed that it has reverse-engineered Skype\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s VoIP protocol, and has announced that it will release it some time in August. The breach allows the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s software to place PC-to-PC calls over the Skype network, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s No 1 Internet calling service that has over 100 million users across the world. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}