17 May 2013

Is Microsoft reading your Skype communications?

The question of whether Skype - a Microsoft subsidiary since May 2011 - allows U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the communications exchanged by its users has still not been adequately answered by Microsoft...


That conclusion has been reached after The H's German associates at heise Security have been notified, and then independently confirmed, that every HTTPS URL sent over Skype gets checked from an IP address registered to Microsoft headquarters in the U.S...

When asked why that is, the company has replied that they are indeed accessing all sent URLs so that they could spot and remove spam and phishing links.

But the researchers remain unconvinced...


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