Finally Skype got cracked

Always worried about your hijacked systems, because of Skype's Supe Node technology ? or an ardent supporter of open systems which was challenged by protected protocols of Skype. Now you can take a sigh of relief if Charlie Paglee can be believed. Recently he broke an unnerving news for eBay which says that a group of Chinese engineers have cracked the Skype by reverse enigineering. This may spell a bad future for eBay who has already more than 100 mn Skype users. In case this new developed system sees the light, new as well as existing Skype users may not like to be added as a super node and in turn to be hijacked. This will reduce the Super nodes in numbers which will deteriorate the network's quality. Moreover eBay's advertising plan over Skype clients may also suffer as in competition there will always be an ad free client available in the market. But there can be a possible catch in application developed by chinese engineers is the ability to get through firewalls and NAT routers. Considering the $US 2.6 bn bet, eBay would like to pull up the sleeves and come back into fight by

a) Going for business products and / or
b) Doing nothing (In case new client doen't attract sizeable no. of users) and / or
c) Going through traditional way of blocking and blocking again and / or
d) Opening the proprietary protocol to third parties and support it by official API

This 10 person chinese company is expected to launch the parasite client (no offences as personally i am open system supporter) by august '06. Watch this space for further hungama in VoIP space.