The Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported yesterday (link below) that Russian experts believe Microsoft built lawful intercept capability into Skype over a year ago and has shared that capability with Russian LEAs; supposedly, the capability allows a user's Skype to be remotely triggered to establish its end-to-end encryption with a Skype server (which can then intercept) rather than with "the other end." The Russian blogosphere is chattering away about it, with some saying "but of course" and others saying "doubt it." If not a smoking gun, it might be a whiff of gunpowder, although the same article says "and earlier this week it became known that the Chinese version of Skype has a special mechanism for surveilling users"-something we've known (thanks to CitLab et al.) for years, so I'm not sure we should consider this writer likely to be contributing something substantially new. Microsoft today said "not true." http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/10030771/skype_proslushivayut Best, Eric PGP <http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2> -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE