Microsoft Adding Backdoors to Skype to Facilitate Government Snooping
Skype is not a fully decentralized [peer-to-peer] service because it uses so-called “supernodes.” The supernodes are basically servers that both the caller and recipient can connect to, and they use these mutually-known servers to make the initial introduction between the two clients.
Reportedly, Microsoft is re-engineering these supernodes to make it easier for law enforcement to monitor calls by allowing the supernodes to not only make the introduction but to actually route the voice data of the calls as well.
In this way, the actual voice data would pass through the monitored servers and the call is no longer secure. It is essentially a man-in-the-middle attack, and it is made all the easier because Microsoft -– who owns Skype and knows the keys used for the service’s encryption -– is helping.
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