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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Dan Gillmor: Don't believe the Skype: it may not be
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Dan Gillmor: Don't believe the Skype: it may not be as private as you might think
http://j.mp/OnbREn (Guardian)
"When Skype became popular just under a decade ago, I repeatedly asked
the company a question that I considered crucial. The online calling
and messaging service encrypted users' communications, and it was
based outside the United States. But the encryption methods were kept
secret, so outside researchers couldn't verify their quality - a
technique that experts in the field sometimes deride as "security
through obscurity" - and I wanted to know whether Skype had a software
backdoor that it or anyone else could use to listen into users' calls."
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