How to sandbox skype? [WON'T FIX]

alexcortes · Last edited by alexcortes on Thu May 29, 2014 1:14 am; edited 1 time in total

Dear fellows,

There are a way to run skype sandboxed? How?

Thanks!

chithanh · Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject:

I imagine that proper sandboxing will be difficult, as Skype needs access to your X server to output things (which means that it can log keystrokes etc.), your microphone and speakers, and so on.

It might be practical to run Skype inside a virtual machine, if you can get audio pass-through to work.

alexcortes · Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 1:13 am Post subject:

@chithanh

Thanks!

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:15 pm Post subject:

Speaking of audio pass-through, I know playback works fine through QEMU, but how would audio recording work...

Seems a bit scary in my opinion that a VM could be spying on audio...
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russK · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 665

Maybe give it it's own USB audio device

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

I'll just throw this out: if you are not overly paranoid you could just run it as a special user that isn't privileged beyond what it needs to run. It is not the most secure option, but really, what are you expecting it to do? I do this for anything I don't really trust like skype, wine, and spotify.
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