In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

[Bill Davidsen]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 16:13:39 -0400,
>   "Ryan B. Lynch" <ryan.b.lynch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But either way, those call records could certainly be obtained via court
>> order, in a criminal investigation, or even just a civil lawsuit, if
>> they exist.
> 
> Not in the US. Some high level government spook would talk to the CEO
> of Skype (or EBay if they are still owned by them) and ask them to
> cooperate in comabtting terrorism. And if the CEO hestiated, they would
> point to what happened to the CEO of QWest who didn't roll over when
> he was asked to. (e.g QWest lost of a lot of dollars worth of government
> contracts and the CEO was investigated and convicted of insider trading.
> And insider trading is something that happens a lot and seems to be only
> prosecuted in extreme cases and/or when someone wants to make an example of
> someone.)
> 
> I am about 95% certain that the US goverment gets copies of all skype
> call records in near real time.
> 
Delivered by black helicopters...

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