Il y a eu une petite discussion sur les mailing-list de Security Focus fin septembre, et globalement beaucoup de participants étaient contre l'utilisation de Skype. Des propos assez argumenté :
>My biggest worry about Skype is that your machines become a
>node on the Skype network, which means that you become a
>forwarding point for ALL the traffic Skype decides to send you.
[...]
>There are other worrying things in the EULA such as that Skype
>can use their network (and in turn YOU) to transfer whatever
>data they please - since it's encrypted, they have the perfect
>supertransfer network they can resell to people moving large
>amounts of data. They can also use idle time on your machine
>to perform tasks in distributed computer form.
# Security Focus
Posté par agmk . En réponse au journal Skype interdit dans les établissements de l'Éducation nationale. Évalué à 10.
>My biggest worry about Skype is that your machines become a
>node on the Skype network, which means that you become a
>forwarding point for ALL the traffic Skype decides to send you.
[...]
>There are other worrying things in the EULA such as that Skype
>can use their network (and in turn YOU) to transfer whatever
>data they please - since it's encrypted, they have the perfect
>supertransfer network they can resell to people moving large
>amounts of data. They can also use idle time on your machine
>to perform tasks in distributed computer form.
Je pense que c'est ce genre de doutes qui ont aussi motivés la décision dont il est question ici.
Le premier message du (petit) thread : http://seclists.org/lists/security-basics/2005/Aug/0287.html(...)