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Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501@bobf.frankston.com> Date: October 25, 2005 1:24:09 PM EDT To: dave@farber.net, 'Ip Ip' <ip@v2.listbox.com> Cc: 'Luca Fabbri' <lfabbri@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [IP] more on French government bans Skype at Universities
OK, to be fair -- any complex piece of software is vulnerable and most commercial programs are closed. It's also a reason for censoring books that spread bad ideas. But then this is the country that was protected by the Maginot Line. The virus problem is real but needs to be addressed by limiting the damage of errors whether they be due to commission or omission. Picking on a program that seems least likely to cause these problems doesn't pass the smell test.
Begin forwarded message: From: Luca Fabbri <lfabbri@yahoo.com> Date: October 25, 2005 12:01:04 PM EDT To: dave@farber.net Subject: RE: [IP] French government bans Skype at Universities
Skype is a closed and 100% proprietary product that can do with your computer whatever it wants once it is installed; it uses port 80 to circumvent firewalls in totally inappropriate way that could bring down the whole Internet if Skype was more widely used.
Luca Fabbri
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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