Ride the Lightning

Cybersecurity and Future of Law Practice Blog
by Sharon D. Nelson Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

NSA Finds Skype Communications "Vital" – Encrypted or Not

May 14, 2014

Another day, another Snowden leak. This story came from ArsTechnica yesterday. Apparently, the NSA can "work around" Skype crypto – another reason for lawyers (and many others) to avoid Skype.

It is clear the NSA has obtained buddy lists, credit card info, call records, user account data and unspecified "other material" with over 2800 reports issued since April 2011 based on PRISM Skype collection.

I do appreciate that these leaks always come just before one of our cybersecurity presentations. You can always rely on the NSA to provide "trending topics."

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