14 July 2006

A Chinese company claims to have reverse-engineered the
Skype
protocol, allowing it to place calls over Skype's VoIP network. 

According to a post on the
VoIPWiki
blog, a user by the name of Charlie Paglee received a Skype call from a
contact at an unnamed Chinese company.

The calling party used the company's own software to initiate the call,
rather than the official
Skype
client.