[liberationtech] Microsoft Accesses Skype Chats

[Pranesh Prakash]

Heise Security is reporting that Microsoft accesses links sent over 
Skype chat.[1]

Here is the /. lede:

"A Microsoft server accesses URLs sent in Skype chat messages, even if 
they are HTTPS URLs and contain account information. A reader of Heise 
publications notified Heise Security (link to German website, Google 
translation[2]). They replicated the observation by sending links via 
Skype, including one to a private file storage account, and found that 
these URLs are shortly after accessed from a Microsoft IP address. When 
confronted, Microsoft claimed that this is part of an effort to detect 
and filter spam and fishing URLs."

  [1]: 
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Vorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-1857620.html>
  [2]: 
<http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FVorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-1857620.html>

~ Pranesh

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Pranesh Prakash
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