Re: Faking it with skype
Am Samstag, 20. September 2014, 22:42:52 schrieb Bret Busby:
> On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 September 2014 08:00:16 Bret Busby wrote:
> >> On 20/09/2014, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Saturday 20 September 2014 07:32:54 Bret Busby wrote:
> >> >> It has just occurred to me - I believe that the appropriuate term for
> >> >> the Microsucks action, is crippleware. Microsucks has crippled
> >> >> versions of Skype, that have version numbers earlier than 4.3.
> >> >
> >> > I don't use Skype so can't test, but why not try just changing the
> >> > number
> >> > as
> >> >
> >> > has been suggested, and as has apparently worked for some other people?
> >> >
> >> > Lisi
> >>
> >> I had already tried one method of doing that - using the suggested
> >> method which involved using sed - which was offered as an alternative
> >> to using a hexeditor (which option scared me)
> >
> > Ah! That answers my question. Perhaps the time has come to grasp the
> > bull
> > by
> > the horns? The lesser evil? And it may turn out a good deal less
> > fearsome
> >
> > than you expect.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Unfortunately, as indicated by subsequent posts in this and a later,
> related, thread, Microshite's ongoing campaign of sabotage of
> technology, has apparently overcome the particular fix.
>
> Hopefully, sometime, someone will successfully destroy the
> deathstar-like entity that is Microshite.
>
> And, hopefully, the original Skype developers will create a new Skype
> facility, free of Microshite.
As in the other thread again, it still works here. With version patched 4.2.
At least I can see online state of buddies after login in and it does log in.
Ciao,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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