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08 October 2006

From Russia with love... Did Russian Hackers overtake in effect Chinese Hackers in the race to reverse engineer the Skype.exe ? This time it's not a hoax or an unfulfilled promise. Here is the QtSkype4.exe.

Deep Thoughts on China Russia or Skype

I just picked this up from my anonymous contacts… Basically I got a sneak preview of an executable program that looked exactly like the original Skype.exe (except for logo ...), but only it is not Skype. I am sharing the information here. «Sharing is good». Where did hear that before ?

The QtSkype4.exe is not yet logging on the p2p-user-database "but that would be fixed very soon", my source said. Apperently they have just reverse engineered the user-interface and now the rest will follow ? Hm, that would interesting to see.

It’s NOT some stupid screen mock-up. It’s indeed a real working program (the version that I just received) but it’s not providing any login, dial or chat functionality yet. It does run as an executable.

Here are the screendumps of QtSkype4.exe

Skype russian ui reverse engineering

And it’s using the following modules :

Qt4skype

Now all this might be very interesting, but I think there will be a problem for Skype if somebody manages to access the skype user cloud directly without having to go over their propietary system. Call it connectivity, call it p2p freedom call it hacking. Call it what you like. It is happening and that is the point. Such type of Skype clones will certainly make the whole ball-game more interesting.

No further interpretation is needed. All that has been done already by others.

Russian cone head dollFrom Russia with love... We’ll see next week or next month what will be the reality of this attempt. I do believe it’s geniune, but then again that was also thought of the Chinese Hacker that had reverse engineered Skype (Skype Reverse Engineering attempt in China). In the end we have seen nothing. So let’s wait and see what the Russian come up with.

See what I blogged earlier on the 1st publicized attemp to reverse engineer skype (china attempt).

see also Skype Reverse Engineering attempt in China.

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Without working functionality (sing-in, speech), its nothing. I can create the same UI in 15-30mins :-)

How about posting the executable so we can all have a look? Cause to me it just seems like a bunch of photoshopped images.

How do they get sound quality? They would have to license GIPS.

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