Your friend doesn't seem to understand what the stat64 command does if he thinks it's reading those files.

He didn't post his full strace, but there's absolutely nothing there showing that Skype's doing anything wrong whatsoever.

If it was, his strace would look a lot closer to this, for example... Skype loading one of it's audio files before playing:

# Get file attributes/permissions/info
> stat64("/usr/share/skype/sounds/CallConnecting.wav", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=64044, ...}) = 0
# Get file handle
> open("/usr/share/skype/sounds/CallConnecting.wav", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 43
# Reading from opened file handle
> read(43, "MemTotal: 2060364 kB\nMemFr"..., 1024) = 1024
> read(43, "RIFF$\372\0\0WAVEfmt \20\0\0\0\1\0\1\0\200>\0\0\0}\0\0\2"..., 64044) = 64044

So enough of the FUD... or have your friend post his full strace before claiming that Skype's reading and sending his bookmarks back home.

It's quite normal for programs to stat64 files. Try using "ls" sometime.

Back on topic, please.

1:42 here and ready for the next one. Hope they still something impressive to announce.

i hope they announce something new again today...

From what I hear, it is not going to be just a device, but a combination of device + service (if they release it...)

from the lineup i suspect its the recently talked about mobile banking/payment system that they will be talking about...

@tso: that will only be interesting (to most people, and reviewers like eldar) if it's readily usable with local partners near your area. Highly doubtful..

I'm guessing they'll reveal that the N900 can be jailbroken to enable iphone compatibility layer.

There are more details, strace logs etc in this thread.

Files they care about, yes. Even if you buy the only semi-official explanation given ("firefox and opera profiles are read to figure out proxy settings"), traversing the entire ~/.mozilla tree when you only need to see prefs.js is extremely bad coding.

Disclaimer: I have no plans to ever use skype or any other closed protocol for my communications, so don't really care.

It started. Services dude talks about Ovi, Ovi Mail, Nokia Messaging, etc, at this point is a recap of things we know.

E-Series! Mentions about hard work on bringing Messaging to Enterprise. Then music, Comes with Music renewal fee can come integrated into the operator's bill (interesting). Then talks about Lifecasting and Maps.

Some interesting numbers in Ovi (downloads in August were 50% more than in July).

Aha! Now he talks about being open, it brings innovation to the market.

"Being open makes our technology, your technology."

Announcement incoming! Ovi SDK and APIs, made to run in Symbian and Maemo.