[perhaps off topic, but interesting security implications?]
I wonder if backdoors are installed to comply with
government & law enforcement requirements. In the US,
Sen. Jay Rockefeller proposes to allow the POTUS to shutdown
public & private Internet for any reason they want?
Well back to Skype in the news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/skype_trojan_source_code/
Fact or hype?
FWIW,
Dan