"Since its acquisition of Skype in May 2011, Microsoft has added a legitimate monitoring technology to the tool", says newspaper's undisclosed source in Kremlin. "Now any user can be switched to a special mode where the encryption keys are generated on a server rather than on the user's phone or computer". Microsoft has been providing this technology to security services across the world, including Russia.
This is not the first time
That's not the first time we hear about Skype breaching privacy.
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There's been reports that Skype is being listened to in China
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We all know that Microsoft has replaced Skype "supernodes" with Linux boxes moving from p2p-architecture to a more traditional one.
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It's been discovered that some web-bot with a Redmond IP-address crawls all https-links you post into a Skype conversation (here's the source translated from German).
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Jeffrey Nokel from the University of New Mexico has discovered that the Chinese installer even comes with a keylogger that "listens" to some specific "bad" words and combinations and sends them to the secret service later...
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Skype leaks your location
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And the list continues....
" ...our worst fears have become reality. Microsoft have absolutely no good intentions, or at least none which are backed by morals, and so they have now effectively ruined Skype.
My time as a Skype user is coming to a grinding halt as soon as I find a completely end-to-end encrypted alternative — and, for your own sake, I seriously hope that you consider going down the same path.
Proof:
Microsoft asserts: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Does Skype use encryption? - Support - Skype
"All Skype-to-Skype voice, video, and instant message conversations are encrypted. This protects you from potential eavesdropping by malicious users."
Did this answer your question?
--Microsoft(Skype FAQ)
https://support.skype.com/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encryption
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Proof by contradiction:
Evidence of COUNTER EXAMPLES:
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"Since its acquisition of Skype in May 2011, Microsoft has added a legitimate monitoring technology to the tool", says newspaper's undisclosed source in Kremlin. "Now any user can be switched to a special mode where the encryption keys are generated on a server rather than on the user's phone or computer". Microsoft has been providing this technology to security services across the world, including Russia.
This is not the first time
That's not the first time we hear about Skype breaching privacy. – There's been reports that Skype is being listened to in China – We all know that Microsoft has replaced Skype "supernodes" with Linux boxes moving from p2p-architecture to a more traditional one. – It's been discovered that some web-bot with a Redmond IP-address crawls all https-links you post into a Skype conversation (here's the source translated from German). – Jeffrey Nokel from the University of New Mexico has discovered that the Chinese installer even comes with a keylogger that "listens" to some specific "bad" words and combinations and sends them to the secret service later... – Skype leaks your location - And the list continues....
http://blog.jitbit.com/2013/05/skype-spying-on-you-in-russia...
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...And so, Microsoft ruins Skype
"let's see if they crawl this."
Adam Back, and The H Security have confirmed the back door, I was still shocked when Guan later dumped the following from his access log:
65.52.100.214 - - [20/May/2013:13:04:11 +0000] "HEAD /skypetest HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "-" "guan.dk"
" ...our worst fears have become reality. Microsoft have absolutely no good intentions, or at least none which are backed by morals, and so they have now effectively ruined Skype.
My time as a Skype user is coming to a grinding halt as soon as I find a completely end-to-end encrypted alternative — and, for your own sake, I seriously hope that you consider going down the same path.
http://bruun.co/2013/05/20/and-so-microsoft-ruins-skype