Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Vista Community Forums - Vistaheads, YOUR Largest Resource for Windows Vista related information.

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so , join our community today!

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Chinese Skype Software Secretly Logs Political Chat Messages

General Technology News

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Display Modes

#1 (permalink)

10-02-2008

Steve

Moderator

Join Date: Sep 2006

Location: Emerald Isle

Posts: 82,536

Thanks: 24

Thanked 176 Times in 46 Posts

Chinese Skype Software Secretly Logs Political Chat Messages

A Chinese-version of Skype's text messaging and online phone call software secretly stores copies of political messages on servers controlled by Skype's Chinese partner company, according to a watchdog report. Despite company promises that the software offers secure communication, a Canadian researcher found and decrypted more than a million messages, transmitted to company servers, triggered by keywords like "democracy" and "Olympics."

Wired.com http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/topheadlines?i=PJdyKL
http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/topheadlines?i=LdssM http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/topheadlines?i=zpBFm http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/topheadlines?i=Ov19m http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/topheadlines?i=mZEnM

More...

Sponsored Links

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts vB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is On Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are Off

Similar Threads

Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Chinese Skype spies on users, researcher says	Steve	Security News	0	10-02-2008 21:50
Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages	Steve	Security News	0	10-02-2008 07:00
Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software	Steve	General Technology News	0	02-29-2008 03:40
Using Simplified Chinese Software in Traditional Chinese Vista	ouranos	microsoft.public.windows.vista.general	1	07-15-2007 05:06
Political Leaning and Free Software	Steve	General Technology News	0	03-11-2007 03:01

All times are GMT +1. The time now is 17:48.

Vistaheads.com is part of the Heads Network. See also XPHeads.com , Win7Heads.com and Win8Heads.com.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120