Skype’s current encryption status spelled out, Microsoft
In case you didn’t know Microsoft recently bought Skype for a cool $8.5 million, and in case you didn’t know Skype went down globally on June 7th. Naturally, all of this hot off the press news has been dying down since then but is now back in the form of spying claims that Russian security agency, the FSB, has been spying on users of Skype.
Now, we haven’t been completely in the know surrounding these claims if we’re honest, however to sum it up the FSB caused severe controversy around the world not long back by demanding access to popular services like gmail and Skype due to national security concerns. Microsoft apparently bent over backwards and handed over access to it’s Skype platform. On the highly controversial issue, Marina Levina of Microsoft’s PR department said:
“The matter was not about the encryption algorythms…in terms of Microsoft’s cooperation with the FSB, the company gives the initial codes of its products to the FSB for inspection. In the future, Skype may also be examined,”
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