Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal
by luxpir on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:22PM
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> Skype has always been a black box
I saw a BBC documentary in the mid-early 2000s (sorry, can't cite it right now) about law enforcement and intel having a really tough time with suspects using Skype, only being able to collect metadata and not call content due to its split routing protocols.
Now, there's nothing to say the whole service wasn't backdoored at some point, but it appeared to be a real concern, at least to LE. A few security audits at the time also gave it a very positive report (ditto for citation). In the post-MS sale era, of course there's zero trust. Prior to that though, things seemed different.
I saw a BBC documentary in the mid-early 2000s (sorry, can't cite it right now) about law enforcement and intel having a really tough time with suspects using Skype, only being able to collect metadata and not call content due to its split routing protocols.
Now, there's nothing to say the whole service wasn't backdoored at some point, but it appeared to be a real concern, at least to LE. A few security audits at the time also gave it a very positive report (ditto for citation). In the post-MS sale era, of course there's zero trust. Prior to that though, things seemed different.