Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-05-26 2:13 AM, Eric S Johnson wrote: Sauer: We answer to this question: We provide a safe communication option available. I will not tell you whether we can listen to it or not. In other words, no evidence there, either. Oh come on. "We will not tell you" tells us. _

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread ianG
On 19/05/13 22:41 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: This patent by Microsoft may be of interest to those looking into Skype, automated interception and probably many other kinds of interception - note that this is not just a matter of recording, it in fact *tampers* with the data: "Aspects of the subje

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Dear Eric, Eric S Johnson: > Sauer: We answer to this question: We provide a safe communication option > available. I will not tell you whether we can listen to it or not. > > In other words, no evidence there, either. > > There is also no useful definition of safe. Does that include secure?

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread Eric S Johnson
Sauer: We answer to this question: We provide a safe communication option available. I will not tell you whether we can listen to it or not. In other words, no evidence there, either. (NB the question is "do we have evidence." Not "are we inclined to suspect, based on our intuition / religi

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread Eric S Johnson
Sauer: We answer to this question: We provide a safe communication option available. I will not tell you whether we can listen to it or not. In other words, no evidence there, either. (NB the question is "do we have evidence." Not "are we inclined to suspect, based on our intuition / religi

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread ianG
On 25/05/13 17:26 PM, Ethan Heilman wrote: Also adding to the evidence there was this story in which minutes were leaked from an Austrian counter terrorism meeting that stated that skype has a backdoor that helps the Austrian government listen to communications: "At a meeting with representative

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread Ethan Heilman
Also adding to the evidence there was this story in which minutes were leaked from an Austrian counter terrorism meeting that stated that skype has a backdoor that helps the Austrian government listen to communications: "At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawfu

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-25 Thread Ethan Heilman
>I missed that one--do you have a URL? (I don't know German.) Sure, here is the translated quote from Kurt Sauer, head of the security division of Skype: ZDNet: What is the answer to my question, even if you can not listen to > Skype calls? > Sauer: We answer to this question: We provide a safe c