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Originally Posted by RU Still Down?
It could also be that German Police do know how to break Skype's supposed encryption ( which uses AES and RSA according to Wikipedia) but are in the middle of a disinformation campaign to get the public to believe something that is false. |
Wow dude, sounds like you are paranoid. Not that you shouldn't be... ;)
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Originally Posted by RU Still Down?
Too bad it's not illegal in the USA -- as the US government has used spyware on its citizens computers in the past to gain encryption pass phrases.
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Actually, installing spyware
without permission is illegal
inside the USA. The trouble is, most users are too stupid to pay attention to the long End User License Agreements (EULA) that come with every little utility, toolbar, widget and application they install. It's too damn easy for them to slip some wording into something like, say, Google Toolbar for example, that gives them permission to do the spyware thing.
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Originally Posted by RU Still Down?
I I guess us Americans just love and trust the police and government with all our hearts,brains,souls,etc.
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I don't trust the government that much; I just don't think they are that competent to pull something like that off. Have you been to the DMV lately? :D
As for tapping, maybe the German police should check out Peter Cox's
SIPtap. Cox has created a program that can be installed via a trojan or at the ISP level and record VoIP conversations as a WAV file. I'm not sure if it would work with Skype or not, but it sounds like this nut may not be so hard to crack after all?
Of course, the moral of this tale for all of us users is easy: Don't say anything you wouldn't want Big Brother to hear.