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1. Skype is not blocked in Russia. Federal security officials voice their concerns about Skype every once in a while, which causes rumors about possible blockag
by vabole 15y ago
1. Skype is not blocked in Russia. Federal security officials voice their concerns about Skype every once in a while, which causes rumors about possible blockage in media. Although nothing came out of it yet.
2. In China all skype servers redirect to their Chinese partner http://skype.tom.com/ http://skype.tom.com/
Tom Skype has everything that you would expect in QQ or other Chinese IM's, namely intrusive ads and content filtering.
There is research showing how much data is leaked by the Tom Skype and how insecurely it is stored.
http://www.nartv.org/mirror/breachingtrust.pdf http://www.nartv.org/mirror/breachingtrust.pdf
It is quite worrying that Skype has a such partner. Although it makes me think that Google would have more success in China if it found a Chinese partner like Tom Google.
- nikcub 15y agoIn a previous startup I spent a long time talking to TOM about taking our product into the Chinese market. It comes down to them knowing people, and they are very very good at what they do and very reasonable. I have no doubt that because of the culture in the country and the way that business is done that having somebody like TOM would be a huge gain for Google. Kai Fu-Lee was supposed to be that, but he left. You can't really send Americans out there to establish a business