> The most noteworthy being that Internews seems to have proclaimed Skype a > completely acceptable > technology, with no evidence of its encryption being broken.
During the Arab Spring, I helped translate documents that were liberated from an information ministry. They included transcripts of Skype text-chat conversations, and one of the people in the conversations was a member of Internews. The chat logs were most likely taken from a computer (your skype chats are stored locally), not intercepted directly. Multiple people in the transcripts were detained and their computers were searched, both within the country and in the case of the Internews person at an airport. So I don't know about the encryption side of things, but they are aware of the vulnerabilities, having been victims themselves Rob -- Idibon www.idibon.com www.robertmunro.com -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
