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Re:How to intercept Skype calls by bad_user on Friday May 27, 2011 @08:51AM (#2591252)
Geez, do you also wear a tinfoil hat, or was this humor?
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Re:How to intercept Skype calls by dnadolny on Friday May 27, 2011 @10:24AM (#2591534)
Humor? The NSA tried to introduce an encryption chip[1] and get telecommunications providers to use it. It had a backdoor so that they could decrypt anything that used it.

I vaguely remember hearing other stories where chips were made with secret backdoors in them, but I can't seem to find any.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

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