On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:30:53 -0700, "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [perhaps off topic, but interesting security implications?] Yeah, don't let LE install trojan software on machines you use. > I wonder if backdoors are installed to comply with > government & law enforcement requirements. In the US, The Skype backdoors that have been covered in public (recently and in the past) that I have seen have all been additional software installed by LE on the victum's machine, not something specifically built into Sykpe. Since calls are dispatched through central servers and Skype is a US company, presumably call record information is being captured by the US, en masse. Some other governments probably also get easy access to this data. > Fact or hype? Probably both. The existance of trojans has come up before, this guy just seems to be hyping his claim that he wrote one of them. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
