tl;dr Skype is monitor and logging everything you type.

 

 

 

The NSA saga continues in the Redmond-based empire, this time with a new report aimed at Microsoft’s flagship VoIP platform Skype.

A report published by The New York Times and citing people who asked not to be named for obvious reasons, Skype developed its own user-monitoring system before the Microsoft acquisition in October 2011.

It appears that US intelligence agencies have insisted that local software companies must cooperate closer with the NSA, so it asked several top vendors, including Skype, to put together secret teams to develop systems that would provide them with backdoor access to users’ conversations.

The source claims that the NSA wanted “to control the process themselves” and thus skip the process of contacting the parent company and asking for details on select user accounts.

This is how Skype Project Chess was born. “Less than a dozen people inside Skype” have been asked to develop a hidden system that would allow the NSA to access conversations and user details at any time.

Skype officially joined the PRISM program on February 6, 2011, so it’s believed that the backdoor access system was already up and running at that time, more than half a year before the Microsoft acquisition was completed.

It’s not yet confirmed, but it appears that those tools have already been removed from Skype, as part of Microsoft’s network updates over the years. Tipsters, on the other hand, claim that companies involved in this NSA secret plan have kept the monitoring systems to “control the process themselves.”

The interesting thing is that Microsoft is now refusing to comment on this report, even though the company has often denied stories claiming that Skype calls can be wiretapped.

The only thing we got from Microsoft in the PRISM scandal is the public statement rolled out this month and claiming that it never provides user details to the government on a voluntary basis.

“We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis. In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers. If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data we don’t participate in it.”

 

 

Taken from here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-Provided-Backdoor-Access-to-the-NSA-Before-Microsoft-Takeover-NYT-362384.shtml

 

 

Yeah Shakur me and the NSA agent dont want to hear your nude pic stories from 7th grade

It pisses me off that people care so much about stuff like this. It's just like having a security camera in a shopping centre. There is no harm whatsoever for people who aren't criminals. The NSA isn't going to share your nude photos with your friends or even spy on you unless they have good reason.

Yeah, some of you don't got nothing to hide. There are many however who deal in the black market through Skype.

 

dang

lol, they are always watching you. 

Ehh, I just assume that everything you do is being watched/monitored.

Personal freedoms are beginning to slowly decay.

Well, I doubt any1 on this website has talked over skype about something, that would attract interest of NSA...

Yeah, some of you don't got nothing to hide. There are many however who deal in the black market through Skype.

The NSA is hardly going to give a shit if you sell some RSGP or a crappy booter. They are only after the big bois.

So what?

What exactly are you worried about?

 

You're being watched everywhere, your information is never safe.

 

What a wonderful place the internet is!!

It pisses me off that people care so much about stuff like this. It's just like having a security camera in a shopping centre. There is no harm whatsoever for people who aren't criminals. The NSA isn't going to share your nude photos with your friends or even spy on you unless they have good reason.

Couldn't have said it any better.....

It pisses me off that people care so much about stuff like this. It's just like having a security camera in a shopping centre. There is no harm whatsoever for people who aren't criminals. The NSA isn't going to share your nude photos with your friends or even spy on you unless they have good reason.

I don't like the fact that they send 19 year olds to prison for 10 fucking years because they said something they didn't mean on a computer game.

lol.. fuck the world

Seen this before a couple months ago.

 

I got hardware banned on this computer from Skype a while ago, have to use plus.im now anyway :-)

 

Also, if you are trying to deter people away from Skype, it doesn't work.

 

Nobody bothers using Jabber or anything, Personally I like to use crypto.cat but nobody can be bothered to use it.

Edited September 23, 201312 yr by chippy

Yeah Shakur me and the NSA agent dont want to hear your nude pic stories from 7th grade

gtfo scorp