Re: So much for Skype.

On 05/22/2011 11:45 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:06, Andrew McGlashan
<andrew.mcglashan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a firewall problem, not
a Skype problem.

If Skype has admin rights, it will use them stealthily.


Why should Skype have admin rights?

Because it thinks it needs system privs? Just like any other app that runs as root.

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"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt."
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749


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