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Re: Hacking the snoops?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:26:38 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
A a citizen hacktivist group has found that a Chinese wireless/eBay version of Skype is having text messages intercepted, as well as having (phone) call detail recorded: http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickakhgjbcnpmkhpipbah&M=38 http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/02/china-skype.html
Also, additional details in The New York Times and ARS Technica: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/technology/internet/02skype.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081002-skype-security-flub-leads-to- discovery-of-chinese-monitoring.html Reports can be found here [.pdf]: http://www.infowar-monitor.net/breachingtrust/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFI5S52q1pz9mNUZTMRAr3rAKDCCpqYMMdUZJ5wvcd4evDyyKvmgACeNyP+ gCaguFk1XQLjuso/SqqduAo= =7FxU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Hacking the snoops? Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Oct 02)
- Re: Hacking the snoops? Paul Ferguson (Oct 02)
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- Re: Hacking the snoops? Juha-Matti Laurio (Oct 02)
- Re: Hacking the snoops? Paul Ferguson (Oct 02)