Skype replacement

[John Heinen]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2008/9/1 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>   
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> 2008/8/31 Sylviane et Perry White <spwhite at freesurf.ch>:
>>>       
>>>> I'm not relpying to myself but adding to my previous answer.
>>>> I hadden't read all the material provided by Edmund at that moment, and
>>>> just
>>>> foud out that SKIPE  is
>>>> *known to have a hidden Government Interception Module*
>>>>         
>>> Please tell us how you know this. These accusations are made of all
>>> proprietary software, including (and especially) the Windows operating
>>> system. Even SELinux has been accused of this. Even HARDWARE has been
>>> accused of having backdoors.
>>>       
>> ...
>>     
>>> In any case, Skype is a network application. Always assume that every
>>> node along the network is sniffing.
>>>
>>>       
>> Precisely.  I don't know or care whether skype has any such module, because
>> it doesn't matter.  Various government agencies _do_ monitor phone calls
>> and the Internet.  We know the Chinese monitor the Internet in great
>> detail.  There's nothing that Skype could grab from your conversations that
>> the NSA or MI6 or Maxwell Smart can't pull directly from the 'net.
>>
>>     
>
> I don't think it's that easy to just sniff the net for skype calls and
> get any usefully info from that. For what i know the skype protocol
> uses RSA for key negotiation and AES to encrypt the conversation. So
> without the keys or some program/access to the "end-points" of the
> conversations i don't think you can listen to the call.
>
> / Jonas
>
>   
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