Josh Silverman, President of Skype
What have you learned from TOM about the uploading and storing of certain chats, and what are you doing about it?
What we have discovered in our conversations with TOM is that they in fact were required to do this by the Chinese government.
Josh Silverman, President of Skype
In April 2006, Skype publicly [...]
October 5th 2008 
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I raised questions in the “Breaching Trust” report regarding why TOM-Skype started to log their users’ messages and who had access to the data? Skype now says that the monitoring was a Chinese government requirement. Now we know why it was done and who had access to the captured messages.
Skype President Josh Silverman writes:
What [...]
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Villeneuve, N. (2008). Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform. JR01-2008.(mirror)
This report reveals troubling security and privacy breaches affecting TOM-Skype—the Chinese version of the popular voice and text chat software Skype. It also raises troubling questions regarding how these practices are related to the Government of China’s censorship and surveillance policies. |
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