[liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

2013-03-08 Thread Graham Webster
Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of 
sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send messages 
to a server and sometimes block transmission.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it

Remember 2008? Nart Villeneuve/Citizen Lab reported how this worked, and the 
surveillance barn door was wide open.

http://www.infowar-monitor.net/breachingtrust.pdf

Graham


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Re: [liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Daly
If you want to jump straight to the data, it's here:

http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/tom-skype/


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Graham Webster g...@gwbstr.com wrote:

 Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of
 sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send
 messages to a server and sometimes block transmission.


 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it

 Remember 2008? Nart Villeneuve/Citizen Lab reported how this worked, and
 the surveillance barn door was wide open.

 http://www.infowar-monitor.net/breachingtrust.pdf

 Graham


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