Can Police Monitor Skype Calls?
Good news for privacy advocates and Skype users. In fact, this is likely applicable to most VoIP telephony solutions.
German Police report that they cannot decipher the encryption used by Skype to monitor calls. One of the problems is not just the encryption, but the way in which VoIP calls are conducted. Skype and other VoIP calls are broken into small data packets and routed over many internet paths and routers to get from one end to the other.
This means that Police really need to have access at the source, before the encryption preferably, in order to monitor the call.
I’m sure they’ll be working on that. They likely will be trying to install Trojan Horse programs on the originating PC of the suspect. In the U.S., I think that would fall under the category of a clandestine entry of the property.
Read the full story here.
Comodo’s BOClean is quite adept at fighting Trojan Horse programs, and it’s free.
