Thursday, July 30, 2009

How to beat 'phone and Instant Message snoops

Reuters reports that 'Russia's most powerful business lobby moved to clampdown on Skype and its peers this week, telling lawmakers that theInternet phone services are a threat to Russian businesses and to nationalsecurity.'The lobby, closely associated with Putin's political party, cites concernsof 'a likely and uncontrolled fall in profits for the core telecomoperators,' as well as a fear that law enforcement agencies have thus farbeen unable to listen in on Skype conversations due to its 256-bitencryption.
This means that our home-grown snoops probably can't too.

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