Skype Won't Say Whether It Can Eavesdrop on Your Conversations

[gregmcc]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...r_it_can_now_eavesdrop_on_conversations_.html

When asked repeatedly a Microsoft spokesperson refused to confirm or deny that Skype conversations [could be monitored]. Microsoft was granted a patent a month after purchasing Skype that covers 'legal intercept' technology designed to be used with VOIP services

 

[DJ...]

This is harrowing. The last thing I want is the CIA being privy to my mom's secret cheese muffin recipe. We must take a stand...!

 

[grok]

You discuss your secret recipes over the phone? :erm:

When will people ever learn?

 

[Dean]

This is harrowing. The last thing I want is the CIA being privy to my mom's secret cheese muffin recipe. We must take a stand...!

A muffin stand? I agree. We just can't use Skype to discuss the concept; don't want Microsoft ripping off our design.

 

[gregmcc]

This is harrowing. The last thing I want is the CIA being privy to my mom's secret cheese muffin recipe. We must take a stand...!

Ahh - see. That's the problem now - its no longer secret!

 

[NightShift]

Why WOULDNT Skype, technically, be able to eavedrop on calls? Or record them centrally? Or break into them and start speaking to your mom altogether? From what i understand this technology has been around for over a decade.

 

[chrisc]

My Skype conversations are s-o boring, I doubt anyone would listen for more than 10 seconds.

I think you have to utter "key words" like Echelon in the UK is programmed to pick up, like bomb, or al-queda, etc

 

[warwickw]

This is harrowing. The last thing I want is the CIA being privy to my mom's secret cheese muffin recipe. We must take a stand...!

Forget about privy, Microsoft own the secret cheese muffin recipe, as you used their technology to discuss it..... Honest read their terms and conditions....

 

[Kloofvreter]

This is harrowing. The last thing I want is the CIA being privy to my mom's secret cheese muffin recipe. We must take a stand...!

Hahaha where is the goddamn 'like' button here!

 

[DJ...]

Perhaps it would be easier for everyone reading this thread if you linked and quoted the relevant Ts & Cs that transfer intellectual property to them. Somehow I highly doubt anything of that nature could possibly stand up to legal scrutiny....

 

[mcdui]

I do not know where to put this question, but here goes -
How do I get myself off Facebook?
I have searched and searched on the site and I think they want to virtually make it impossible to remove your account.

 

[marine1]

This is like wondwring if telkom can monitor your Landline calls.
Who cares. If you hiding something don't say it over any tech.