EuroTelcoblog’s James Enck discovers a flaw in the Skype multi user chat system and waxes on about it.
One of the aspects of Skype I see is some type of social networking feature being overlayed with it. The Pulver Communicator already has this type of feature built in but until the type of trust system that is available with LinkedIn or ZeroDegrees type of operations, I don’t think Skype should let this type of technology be authorized.
Why? Skype’s firewall penetration technology is very good at poking the hole through the firewall and even though you trust your friend, I don’t think third party trust is really there just yet.