Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write

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Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond.
A reader informed heise Security that he had observed some unusual network traffic following a Skype instant messaging conversation. The server indicated a potential replay attack. It turned out that an IP address which traced back to Microsoft had accessed the HTTPS URLs previously transmitted over Skype. Heise Security then reproduced the events by sending two test HTTPS URLs, one containing login information and one pointing to a private cloud-based file-sharing service. A few hours after their Skype messages, they observed the following in the server log:



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I haven't logged into to WF for a while, because I couldn't be bothered to change my password, but this bit of tinfoil-hatted stupidity gave me the urge...

Yes, Skype reads your URLs automatically. Just like Google reads your email.

It's called CHECKING FOR MALWARE. derp.

If you're the sort of person who sends unencrypted, confidential information over public IM (or email for that matter), MS are the least of your worries.
 
...and amaturesurgeon comes and and slaps the shit out of everyone with common sense!
 
WTF the only reason I got skype years ago was b/c few of my IM friends told me skype isn't logged....
 
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amateursurgeon said:
It's called CHECKING FOR MALWARE. derp.
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I kinda imagined you making a face similar to this when writing that line.

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It baffles me how most of you guys don't value your privacy, but rather make fun of the OP and troll the shit out of this thread.

The more you let companies and governments get away with shit like this, the faster you'll end up in a police state controlled by corporate enterprises... oh wait, did I just describe the USA? :cool:

And to the malware check argument, explain me this:

They too had received visits to each of the HTTPS URLs transmitted over Skype from an IP address registered to Microsoft in Redmond. URLs pointing to encrypted web pages frequently contain unique session data or other confidential information. HTTP URLs, by contrast, were not accessed. In visiting these pages, Microsoft made use of both the login information and the specially created URL for a private cloud-based file-sharing service.
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I don't care for what reason they access these URLs, I simply don't want anybody to read my IMs.
 
I think all these companies read messages and emails if you are using their service. Definitely encrypt something in an attachment if you want to keep it private. I know Yahoo even shares with facebook who you exchange emails with. I get spam messages from facebook asking if I know certain people who I had email exchanges with years ago. And I have no other connection to those people.
 
mikecarquote said:
I know Yahoo even shares with facebook who you exchange emails with. I get spam messages from facebook asking if I know certain people who I had email exchanges with years ago. And I have no other connection to those people.
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LOL. That is one of the most ignorant things I've read in a while.

When you exchange emails with someone, most of these web services will automatically add you as a contact.

So when the other person joins facebook and "voluntarily" chooses to invite all his contact, that is when you receive emails from facebook.
 
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