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TOMSkype Breach08

This is the fourth and final of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
Having discussed some background to Nart’s research, the activities of the Citizen Lab and answers to Phil’s questions, Nart had a couple of recommendations for Skype going forward. As background, the [...]

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Categories Skype Ecosystem, Skype News, Skype Operations

This is the third of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
Two weeks ago Phil republished an April 2006 Skype Journal post with about sixteen questions related to the TOM-Skype security breach discovered by Nart. My interview provided answers to several of these questions [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

TOM-Skype Breach: The Citizen Lab

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 8:10 am

This is the second of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
After discussing the report itself and some of the follow up activity, we went on to talk about The Citizen Lab, its mission and its activities. From their own website they are “focusing [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

This is the first of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
Last Tuesday afternoon I returned to a University of Toronto building I had last visited in its role as an engineering students’ residence in the mid-1960’s. Abandoned as a residence in the 1980’s, [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

Internet Censorship Explorer Nart Villeneuve has been getting lots of questions about his “Breaching Trust” report and issued a Q&A that answers some common questions. Initially he describes how he determined that messages containing key words were being uploaded to a web server. (The technologically curious can get the answer through accessing the link.) He [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Using Skype