Microsoft won't comment on if Skype can eavesdrop on calls
Now some people claim that those network changes have made it easier for Skype and Microsoft to set up back doors in order for law enforcement authorities to listen in on Skype conversations. There has been more and more pressure from the US and other countries to put in such features in VOIP services such as Skype, as more criminals use these methods to communicate with each other.
Slate.com tried to get Microsoft PR person for Skype, Chaim Haas, to comment on if they now have the ability to listen on Skype chats. Haas reportedly would not give a direct comment, saying only that Skype "co-operates with law enforcement agencies as much as is legally and technically possible."
Last week, as part of its quarterly financial results, Microsoft said that Skype use jumped up 50 percent in the April-June quarter, with a whopping 115 billion minutes worth of calls generated via Skype. Microsoft plans to integrate Skype features in more and more of its products.
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SovietRussiaPosted:
Secrets I could care less. It's not a problem to me.
Just security really.
I also don't really have a problem with it. I don't have anything to hide! :)
FrogPosted:
Blitz_Gifter is werid that i never new skype was owned by Microsoft.....?
Neither did I! :o
BritishColumbiaPosted:
Emazing-LightsBlitz_Gifter is werid that i never new skype was owned by Microsoft.....?
I never knew that either.
Lol they bough it like a couple of months back
EmazedPosted:
Blitz_Gifter is werid that i never new skype was owned by Microsoft.....?
I never knew that either.
SovietRussiaPosted:
Blitz_Gifter is werid that i never new skype was owned by Microsoft.....?
It was purchased recently by microsoft I think.
SovietRussiaPosted:
SmurfsKex It's pretty obviously they do, there is no such thing as privacy in this world.
Yeah your right.
Evertime you visit a site, everytime you make a phone call, everytime you buy something with a credit card. There is no such thing as privacy in this computer age.
SmurfsPosted:
Kex It's pretty obviously they do, there is no such thing as privacy in this world.
Yeah your right.
MazurPosted:
If they don't want to comment, then it's quite obvious they don't want to say that they do eavesdrop.
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