Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extremists

Re:Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extrem... by probably_wrong on Thursday July 03, 2014 @08:32AM (#7982635)

Whenever I finish a Skype call, I immediately get a message supposedly from the other person with a 4-digit number. I don't know what that number means yet. Also, my phone's wifi will not turn off since last week.

Those are all probably just coincidences, but then again, it would also fit in the kind of behavior I'd expect to observe from spyware, either state-sponsored or just the usual kind. In any case, the NSA has made it very easy to become paranoid.

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Re:Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extrem... by randallsquared on Thursday July 03, 2014 @09:28AM (#7982908)

If you're using Skype on Linux, it's the number of seconds of the call. Skype on Linux hasn't been updated in so long that the client doesn't always know what to do with what it's sent; if you're using Skype on Mac, that's when it tells you that you just got off a call with so-and-so for such-and-such time, but on Linux, it just prints out the literal number of seconds and it's done.

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Re:Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extrem... by delian66 on Thursday July 03, 2014 @11:35AM (#7983689)

I had the same problem, when I used the 4.2 linux version of the Skype client. It seems that it was a protocol mismatch between the Windows and Linux versions of the Skype client, and the 4-digit number is the duration of the call in seconds.

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Re:Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extrem... by AlyssaRowan on Thursday July 03, 2014 @01:10PM (#7984308)

Does the other person know what that means? Is it their phone unlock code?

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