Chinese people give Skype to fringe?

Netizens are buzzing with the news that a research group in the country has successfully disabled the proprietary protocol of the world's leading free VoIP voice service. Skype rebutted, but the author of the news gave evidence.

According to Charlie Paglee, CEO of Vozin Communications, which specializes in VoIP (Fremont City, California, USA), engineers at a small Chinese research facility have unlocked their own protocol that Skype also provides. grant to create a 3rd party application capable of connecting with 100 million Skype customers.

Paglee informs her of her personal diary yesterday with a screenshot of Skype connecting directly to a very "rudimentary" application. A friend of this in China called to check the quality of the connection without using Skype. The author also checked the quality of two calls with Chinese friends and found his IP address "100% correct" on 3rd party software.

The interface of the Skype replacement program for the Chinese engineering team.Photo: voipwiki

" The first time we talked, there was a significant echo on my side. The second time, the sound quality was as good as Skype. Now they have replaced calls, not shared images ," Paglee said. write.

Paglee did not name the research team, but said they were working on the demo and hoping to release the product by the end of August. The goal of Chinese engineers is to create a 100% compatible client with Skype.

As for Skype, it affirms: " We have no evidence that this is true. If they can do it, the software code will lack the features and reliability like Skype ".

This company has not touched on the aspects that Paglee mentioned on the blog. In a response to eWeek magazine, a Skype spokesman said: " There is no reverse technology that threatens security and synchronization in Skype's code system ."

Thuy Huong