Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Microsoft + Skype + GOV = no privacy

Microsoft recently made changes to Skype and the way it transmits voice calls and wont disclose what changes they were.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/24/tech/web/skype-surveillance/
(CNN) -- The video calling service Skype recently made a change to how it routes calls.

Yawn, right? But here's where it get a little juicier: Hackers and bloggers are saying the changes, which push some of the video calling process onto Skype's own computers instead of onto random machines on the Internet, could help the app spy on users' calls, presumably at the request of a court or government.

"Reportedly, Microsoft is re-engineering these supernodes to ma...