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My favorite story-in-two-headlines: NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution (2009) https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_
by Lammy 6y ago
My favorite story-in-two-headlines:
NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution (2009) https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/ https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...
Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly? (2011) https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/ https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/
- desilentio 6y agoAny direct evidence that Zoom is giving full access to the NSA now?
- qppo 6y agoMore like the PLA
- bergstromm466 6y agoMay I ask for the reason/thought behind your question?
- desilentio 6y agoSince everybody is now using Zoom and not Skype, I would expect the NSA to try to get the same access to Zoom conversations as they have to Skype conversations. And I don't have the impression that Zoom would say no to billions of dollars to protect its users' privacy.
- propogandist 6y agothey didn't even make an effort to make meetings end to end encrypted until press coverage put them under fire https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/
- lern_too_spel 6y agoSnowden's leaks showed that Skype allowed governments to wiretap its video calls since at least 2010, when those wiretaps were ingested into PRISM. That is before the Microsoft acquisition. It takes a minute of Google searching to debunk this conspiracy theory.
- joana035 6y agoMicrosoft become a PRISM provider in 2007 and Skype in 2011.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThe only PRISM "provider" is the FBI, as Snowden's slides clearly show. The dates are when the integration work to ingest data (requested for individual accounts being wiretapped) from the various formats that the companies provide to the FBI completed.
- Lammy 6y agoThe PRISM slide you're incorrectly referencing shows Skype collection beginning "2/6/11", which in our stupid American short-date format means June 2nd 2011. It's fine if you choose to believe that date has nothing to do with Microsoft's announced-in-May-2011 acquisition of a service that began operation in August 2003, but it's very rude of you to denigrate my completely reasonable observation as a "conspiracy theory". Enjoy your Skype calls :)
- TheOperator 6y agoThere's nothing dinigrating about a theory about a conspiracy being called a conspiracy theory and that reaction gets more and more curious the more I think about it. If you want people to take the idea of plots between the NSA and major companies seriously it seems counterproductive to stigmatise conspiracy theories.
- Lammy 6y agoIt's a bad-faith term intended only to shut down conversations.