Skype security and privacy concerns

Skype security and privacy concerns
Scott Granneman, 2005-09-22

One of my stranger hobbies is collecting interesting and weird anecdotes I find in the news. I have a few areas that always fascinate me, such as finding people who miraculously escape certain death, or items about human memory and cognition, or eccentric individuals who embody some strange aspect of the human condition.

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

"so far we don't kind what kind of encryption scheme Gizmo Project is using),"
This kind of kind is kind'a error right? ;P

Nice Art. but what about FWP and other free VOIP providers..
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Re: Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-27
Anonymous

Yes, I also missed a mention to OpenWengo (http://openwengo.com/) and its features (http://openwengo.com/index.php?yawl[S]=wengo.public.whatIsI
t&yawl[K]=wengo.public.aboutFeatures)

Free, Open Source, SIP compatible, Video support, etc.

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-22
Dennis (3 replies)

Ridiculous article.
Most of the information in the list can be obtain just by browsing the eBay site (e.g. prices, feedback rating, bulletin board posts, etc.)
But the most ridiculous item in the list was PASSWORD. Internet companies encrypt users' passwords using one way algorithm and store them ...

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Re: Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-25
Anonymous

Who says it needed to be plaintext? maybe the just hand over the hash :-)...

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Re: Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-26
Anonymous

UH.....Yeah right! You better do a little more research before making a statement like that....

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Re: Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

when you get the pass hash, its just the matter of time to decrypt it...

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Re: Re: Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-10-12
Anonymous

"Internet companies dont use plaintext passwords" sounds like a bit of a sweeping statement to me(because it is). Also, as everyone else has pointed out, even if encrypted via a one-way hash function, the hash itself has value. Also, although this information can in the main be derived by investiga...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-23
Anonymous

Excellent article there. Thanks for the heads up on eBay, I was not aware of their troublesome position on privacy....

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And the data shows....what? 2005-09-25
Anonymous (2 replies)

How about doing a follow up article with some empirical data showing how the information that eBay has released to Law Enforcement has been abused, as that seems to be the implied fear. If no one knows that fraud on eBay and other auction sites is rampant and their concerns are if LEnforcement has s...

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Re: And the data shows....what? 2005-10-12
Anonymous

"How about doing a follow up article with some empirical data showing how the information that eBay has released to Law Enforcement has been abused, as that seems to be the implied fear."

BZZT WRONG... I don't want this information handing out for free whether it gets abused or not. The fear he...

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Re: And the data shows....what? 2006-12-02
Anonymous

Absolutely ridiculous statement. The equivalent would be: "It's OK to give nuclear bombs to every citizen who asks for one because there is no indication that they will abuse them". The fact that there is a possibility for abuse and that the public will be left at the mercy of a that particular "Law...

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How Skype works 2005-09-27
Anonymous

It's also interesting to look at how Skype works. It relies on "super-nodes" which are computers which have a public IP address, often home users on DSL or cable modems. It opens a port on these computers and listens for connections from other computers around the world. And, although their protocol...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-27
Anonymous

Twas in 2003... maybe the policy has evolved since then... It is almost an eternity in Internet world. :-)
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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-09-28
Anonymous

What's interesting for me about SKYPE is that it works to satisfaction for voice communication with satelite systems which have a very slow, high latency upload ability.

I haven't found anything else that does. I wonder does SIP compatibility imply an limit for this compatability, I once had an i...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-10-08
Anonymous

I have a free _but special_ security software installed in my computer. That had blocked Skype to be installed in my computer considering Skype as dangerous....

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-10-10
Anonymous

briefly, many thanks for this valuable info on the changes with Skype. Forwarned is forarmed.
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Skype security : PGPfone to secure conversations ? 2005-10-11
Nick (1 replies)

Hello
Interesting article. Do you think the conversations on either Gizmo or Skype, could be encrypted ? Which software ? What about PGPfone : is it efficient, is the conversation delayed because of encryption/decryption ?
I mean especially a corporate use of such peer2peer VoIP softwares, to call...

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Re: Skype security : PGPfone to secure conversations ? 2007-04-20
Anonymous

http://zfoneproject.com/getstarted.html...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-12-02
Anonymous_too (1 replies)

What do you all fear? That they wiretap your skype-to-skype calls and fax transcripts of the call to someone? It won't happen because of the encryption, and the calls are probably not even stored centrally since it's peer-to-peer.
Compare Skype security with old telephony and you will never call a...

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Re: Skype security and privacy concerns 2005-12-13
Anonymous

You have missed the whole point in your statement. Wake up please!...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2007-06-24
Anonymous

This is stupid! Why does a NORMAL American get Skype? To thwart the NSA, FBI, and CIA or to communicate with friends, family, and business associates with RELATIVE security from hackers, phrackers, and identity thieves? I think Skype works rather well against the later. Don't worry about Law Enforce...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2008-01-18
Clint Baldwin

I got on my computer the other morning and had a conversation going which had to be skype. I was of some Arabic speaking men and lasted about 10 minutes and wasn't because the call ended but it finally faded out. It had to be skype because I have nothing else on my computer that could have done that...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2008-08-11
Jørgen Halland

Ten days ago I posted the following to Skype Customer Support:
"Recently some medias have reported about possible access for public authorities to listen to Skype calls and other Skype communications.
In the Security Section it reads: "One of Skype's main goals is to protect our users' from unauth...

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Skype security and privacy concerns 2008-09-17
Anonymous

Don't know if you noticed, but if you log in using your work computer, and log in using your home computer. It doesn't log the other off when the second logs in. All conversations and file transfers are also copied to both instances of the logged in user.
To me it looks like the ideal way to wireta...

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Worst thing i ever read. 2008-11-01
Anonymous (2 replies)

Obviously if law enforcement gets involved they have a right to the information. Its called building a case. ...

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Re: Worst thing i ever read. 2009-08-19
Anonymous

When a majority of State/Federal LAW MAKERS are found to have themselves broken various local, state and federal laws AFTER undergoing a serious investigation via the IRS, HMS, FBI, and State Judicial Investigators looked into their past history, the chances that a lay person is found to be entire...

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Re: Worst thing i ever read. 2009-09-02
Anonymous

My understanding is this: IF law enforcement has PROBABLE CAUSE and can convince a judge of such, they can obtain a WARRANT whereby they can ask for and use this information in the building of a case....

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