Fwd: Anyone make any sense out of this skype hack announcement?

[Peter Gutmann]

Christian Collberg <collberg at gmail.com> writes:

>I don't know if the new crack reveals anything new. We have a writeup about 
>the Skype protection techniques in "Surreptitious Software", our book on 
>security-through-obscurity. (Sorry for the blatant self-promotion).

No need to apologise, it's a damn good read.  For people not familiar with it, 
the title is a bit misleading (it sounds like a book about malware), it's 
actually a book on software obfuscation and tamperproofing, IMHO it's the 
definitive reference on the topic.

Peter.

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