NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Sun Feb 22 03:39:38 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:19:26PM -0800, Dean Pierce wrote:
> I thought that the current running theory is that Skype is an NSA 
> operation due to all the spooky crypto being used that seems to have 
> come from nowhere.

I personally wouldn't touch Skype with a 10-feet pole, and in
fact consider it a compromise vector on an ordinarily more or 
less secure OS such as Linux in stock install.
 
> Assuming that is true, this recent "leak" would just be their attempt to 
> convince more people (aka criminals) to use their service.

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