Skyps Sicherheit
NetworkWorld dokumentiert die Kritik von Privacy International an Skype.
These days for electronic communication and placing international calls, many people use the free Voice-over-IP (VoIP) provider Skype to talk, transfer files and video chat. While the majority of users love Skype, there have been concerns in the past about if Skype had a back door for eavesdropping. In 2008, Skype downplayed “a report revealed that its Chinese service not only monitors text chats with sensitive keywords, which it had earlier admitted, but also stores them along with millions of personal user records on computers that could easily be accessed by anybody.” Then Heise Security reported on a back door built into Skype which might allow “connections to be bugged.” Australian police had claimed they were “able to listen in on Skype connections.”