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German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the trojan-man dept.

James Hardine writes "Wikileaks has released documents from the German police revealing Skype interception technology. The leaks are currently creating a storm in the German press. The first document is a communication by the Ministry of Justice to the prosecutors office, about the cost splitting for Skype interception. The second document presents the offer made by Digitask, the German company secretly developing Skype interception, and holds information on pricing and license model, high-level technology descriptions and other detail. The document is of global importance because Skype is used by tens or hundreds of millions of people daily to communicate voice calls and Skype (owned by Ebay, Inc) promotes these calls as being encrypted and secure. The technology includes interception boxes, key forwarding trojans and anonymous proxies to hide police communications."

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  1. da by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Da, zis ceetezens arse iz goodentite.

  2. Re:Germany by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How long before the gestapo packages up a Linux live CD with Skype preinstalled and distrubutes it as secure?

    Fixed

  3. Re:The American people are sheep by jollyreaper · · Score: 2, Funny

    an the public Schiesse. Maybe next they'll show us how to proofread. :(
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  4. Frist Psot Godwins! by m.ducharme · · Score: 1, Funny

    That must be a record or something.

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  5. Re:Germany by m.ducharme · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always wondered what that weird looking dongle was hanging out of the USB port....

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  6. Re:It's NOT the german gov,... by KDR_11k · · Score: 5, Funny

    For Americans, just think of Texas with lederhosen instead of cowboy garb.

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