Skype 5.5 and New Hidden Emoticons
WARNING: This post is humorous (and not very technical) in nature. Please don’t take anything that follows seriously.
With that warning out of the way, we all know that Emoticons are a very serious topic. When Skype updates their emoticon set the Internet takes notice. When Skype announced new emoticons, they included a bit about two new “hidden” emoticons. With something this important hidden, there can be no rest until they have been discovered.
Skype encrypts and obfuscates their binary to prevent reverse engineering (and perhaps to compress it, etc.). Using the very powerful hacker tool, “Process Explorer” I was able to dump the process image. Using another advanced hacker tool, “strings” I was able to find the emoticon list. With a bit of spam to my co-workers I found a couple of hidden emoticons (zilmer) and (hollest). Zilmer and Hollest appear to people that were, or are, associated with the organization behind Skype.
Full Skype 5.5 emoticon listing:
(mooning) (u) (skype) (skype) (punch) (call) (talk) (mp) (mp) (mp) (~) (~) (o) (o) (e) (zilmer) (hollest) (wfh) (toivo) (bug) (wtf) (smoking) (smoking) (smoking) (rock) (poolparty) (poolparty) (finger) (fubar) (drunk) (swear) (headbang) (headbang) (*) (ninja) \o/ (d) (beer) (beer) (^) (flex) (flex) (cash) (cash) (pi) (pi) (coffee) (tmi) (bandit) (music) (tumbleweed) (sun) (rain) (rain) (F) (heidy) (heidy) (lalala) (lalala) (lalala) (lalala) (h) (highfive) (highfive) (highfive) (handshake) (n) (y) (y) (emo) (waiting) (waiting) (waiting) (shake) (nod) (smirk) (happy) (whew) (rofl) (bow) (think) (clap) (chuckle) (chuckle) (makeup) (makeup) (hug) (hug) (wait) (envy) (angel) (devil) (facepalm) (facepalm) (wave) (wave) (wave) (nerd) (mm) (mm) (mm) (worry) (party) (wasntme) (angry) (doh) (puke) (yawn) (yn) (yn) (yn) (yn) ]:) (inlove) (inlove) |-( |-) :^) :$ 
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(:| ;( 
:O 
:D 
A few classic emoticons get rendered by WP here. So, please do enjoy that.
If you use Skype a lot check out Tattler.
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