On 2013-03-24 14:03:43 +0300 (+0300), ianG wrote:
[...]
I fully expected that when Microsoft purchased Skype in 2011, it
was only a matter of time before it was backdoored.
[...]
I'll point this out merely because people seem to keep forgetting...
remember Kazaa? Remember how it had no qualms
Ian wrote:
Are we saying then that the threat on the servers has proven so small
that in practice nobody's bothered to push a persistent key
mechanism? Or have I got this wrong, and the clients are doing p2p
exchange of their ephemeral keys, thus dispersing the risk?
Its been a while since I
On Mar 23, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote:
btw is anyone noticing that apparently skype is both able to eavesdrop on
skype calls, now that microsoft coded themselves in a central backdoor, this
was initially rumoured, then confirmed somewhat by a Russian police
Interesting point below is OS vendors are extracting data for law
enforcement. I wonder how they are doing it when other tools fails.
(Thanks to JM on another list for the link).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/26/heres-what-law-enforcement-can-recover-from-a-seized-iphone/
You
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Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu writes:
Ever since Microsoft bought the company, these rumors have been
floating around.
If they're innocent, why would they not issue an unequivocal denial
with supporting argument?
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