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> Internet is actually a tool for the US Intelligence Community The internet is a tool for every countries' intelligence community. > Skype's acquisition by M
by seppin 7y ago
> Internet is actually a tool for the US Intelligence Community
The internet is a tool for every countries' intelligence community.
> Skype's acquisition by MS was in part a covert operation to help the US Intelligence Community
Source?
- nyolfen 7y agohe qualified with "i believe," but whether that was a motivation at the outset or not is the only issue in contention: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-... it is well known that skype's crypto has always been an obfuscated black box (this may have been primarily to prevent reverse engineered clients using the protocol but it makes backdoors much less detectable), and transitioning from p2p to centralized architecture (which iirc was done after the ebay acquisition) where one party holds the keys obviously makes snooping easier
- DennisP 7y agoInitially Skype was an Estonian company, with founders from Denmark and Sweden. A reporter asked the CEO whether they would modify it to allow compliance with a U.S telecom law mandating provision for wiretapping of voice services, and the CEO said "We're not American. Why would we?" It was a sad day when that changed.