Thursday, August 27, 2009

Skype Voice Tap

The trojan that taps Skype VoIP conversations is old news by now. However, the most interesting part of the interview was how the programmer, Ruben Unteregger, envisions making a trojan work on a Linux system using Flash or Moonlight. As the Linux desktop systems try to provide the same functionality as Windows, the barriers that made Linux more secure are slowly being lowered. At the moment the number of Linux desktop users is very small so it is not yet worthwhile to take that next step to develop a crossplatform trojan. Emphasis on "yet."

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