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Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?



On Tuesday 21 Jul 2009, James Brown wrote:
> I know about ekiga and such but they do not serve for all my aims.
> I (and many people in my country - Russia, when existing terrible and
> bloody dictatorship of tyrants Putin and Medvedev ) need to have an
> encrypted telephony either for calling to VoiP-phones or to ordinary
> phones. But in the last case ekiga and SIP are not useful and the sources
> of the Putins secret political police such "SORM" can control all my
> outgoing calles through ekiga and SIP.

Are you really so naïve as to think that Governments haven't paid the 
developers of Skype to insert a backdoor?  That could explain part of the 
reason why they are so dead set against anybody else getting their hands on 
the Source Code.

If it's encrypted telephony you want, you can always tunnell an IAX connection 
through OpenSSH.  The only secrets then are the session keys; and when you 
sever the connection, you can even publish the used keys, thus allowing you 
plausibly to claim that any remaining encrypted data found on your system was 
placed there afterward and re-datestamped.

-- 
AJS
delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk


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