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At BlackHat Europe, March 2nd and 3rd, 2006 (PDF here) and then at Recon, June 17th, 2006, Fabrice DESCLAUX and Kostya KORTCHINSKY gave a rather detailed analysis (in two pdfs, part 2 here) of how Skype obfuscates what they are doing.
One of their conclusions that really struck me at the time was this bullet:
Fully trusts anyone who speaks Skype
As is made clear in their analysis, Denial of Service attacks are possible. I wonder...
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