Is Microsoft eavesdropping through Skype for the feds?

Are your Skype calls safe from the eyes and ears of snooping feds? Microsoft has filed a patent to allow eavesdropping over Skype and other VOIP platforms, but the Silicon Valley giants won’t say whether or not they are already implementing it.

Microsoft acquired the popular voice-over-IP program Skype in May 2011 for an astounding $8.5 billion, but the news between the world’s most popular VOIP service and the legendary Silicon Valley entity doesn’t end just there. Barely a year later, Microsoft was awarded a patent last month that allows them to roll-out undetectable eavesdropping tools to target the communications of its customers without them ever knowing.

http://rt.com/usa/news/microsoft-eavesdropping-skype-patent-867/

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Comment by Nathan on July 30, 2012 at 12:48pm

All Skype supernodes were moved to Microsoft's data centers earlier this year.

"The move to supernodes was not intended to facilitate greater law enforcement access to our users' communications," Gillett insisted.(Mark Gillett, Skype's chief development and operations officer)

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407745,00.asp

Not 'intended to'...but it does. Just a side benefit I guess....

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