In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

[perhaps off topic, but interesting security implications?]

I wonder if backdoors are installed to comply with
government & law enforcement requirements.  In the US,
Sen. Jay Rockefeller proposes to allow the POTUS to shutdown
public & private Internet for any reason they want?

Well back to Skype in the news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/skype_trojan_source_code/

Fact or hype?

FWIW,
Dan