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Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls

Posted by timothy on from the hookt-on-fon-iks-indeed dept.

mikejuk writes "You might think of linguistics as being interesting but not really useful. Now computational linguistics [PDF of original paper] has been used to crack Skype encryption and reconstruct what is being said in a VoIP call. What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken."

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  1. Re:Speach recognition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you speak as well as you spell?

  2. Re:Speach recognition by newcastlejon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope so; city's spelling was flawless.

    You'd best learn what grammar is before you try to be a grammar nazi.

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    If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
  3. Re:Speach recognition by drb226 · · Score: 3, Funny
    speach

    Scottish Gaelic. Noun speach f (genitive speacha, plural speachan)
    1. wasp

    Like newcastlejon said, his Scottish Gaelic spelling was flawless. I always hate it when Google doesn't recognize my wasps.