[liberationtech] NYT report on Obama admin's wiretap plans

[David Dahl]

I believe skype is closed source, so you would never know if there is
a backdoor. I would assume there is.  see
http://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics/2010/03/02/cryptome-spying-guides-as-a-digital-forensic-resource/

David

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Thomas Smyth <thomas.smyth at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Wouldn't tapping Skype-to-Skype calls be tantamount to tapping any SSL
> encrypted digital communication?  That is, breaking public key encryption?
> Unless that is there is a bug in the Skype client software, which would
> surely be quickly patched..
>