Google Blogoscoped: "'[Google Inc.] looks set to launch a free telephone service that links users via a broadband internet connection using a headset and home computer.

The technology that will enable Google to move in on the market has been around for some time. Software by the London-based company, Skype, has been downloaded nearly 54 million times around the world but no large telecommunication firms have properly exploited it. (...)

Although Google is reluctant to talk about its plans, the logical use of such a network would be to help to support a new telephone service'
-- Elizabeth Judge, Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT (TimesOnline), January 24, 2005"

hehe... nice one, skype is a eally good program eventually it will be prone to exploits, like Mozilla as people download and use it by the hundreds. What will happen is telecom providers will be trying to make a small take on line rental. Oh well. Will skype be more open source and thus have updates as and when to keep it secure? Probably not.