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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