On 12/23/2010 10:00 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:45:58AM -0800, Alex Pankratov wrote: > >> Very good question. The bonus question is if the trigger >> was "external" and if it involved messing with the actual >> (decrypted) Skype protocol messages. > Any supernode compromises reported yet, or is this merely > a DoS? > http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/another_status_update_skype_st.html (watch the video) confirms that the outage was caused by "a number of" clients crashing, and that the cause of that crash was not an external malicious attack.
Anything that looked like a DoS after the outage started is easily explained as clients attempting to reconnect. Matthew Kaufman _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
