China Reportedly Undercovering On Skype Users
Canadian’s computer security investigators have exposed a massive surveillance system in China that supervises Skype messages bearing offensive words to the Communist government.
Specifically, the technology is keeping trail of messages TOM-Skype clients are directing. TOM-Skype is a joint venture between eBay (Skype’s owner) and a Chinese wireless company.
Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, issued an investigative account that the text of chat messages of TOM-Skype users, along with Skype users who have communicated with TOM-Skype users, is glanced over for highly sensitive keywords. Keywords such as “Taiwan independence,” “the Falun Gong,” and “political opposition to the Communist Party of China” are revealed in conversations, uploaded and laid in on servers in China.
The researchers could not resolve who is operating the surveillance system, but suspect it could be the Chinese wireless company in conjugation with Chinese police.