Skype, China, Monitoring & Security
ARStechnia has a interesting post up about how China is monitoring the skype text traffic and flagging some that discuss more “sensitive” issues for complete logging and monitoring. The data, including some security information, was on public servers. Within the data was usernames, land line numbers, passwords, etc. Story here
No real surprise here regarding the monitoring, since China is a communist nation run by a authoritarian regime, but Skype’s (which is owned by Ebay) working with them is what is disturbing to me. At some point you have to put basic human rights against profits.
