“Set Your Conversations Free”

One of the brand messages to be found on the Skype website is ‘Set your conversations free’ which is kind of ironic when you consider how a Chinese version of the Skype service monitors and archives messages that trigger politically sensitive keywords…

It really should come as no real surprise that the ‘Internet Police’ in China keep tabs on Skype messages as well as pretty much every other kind of Internet based communication. The country does not have the best online reputation when it comes to matters of Internet security after all.

The extent to which the Chinese government will monitor and filter the Internet was made pretty clear before and during the Beijing Olympic Games after all.

Indeed, conversation content filtering of Skype is not in itself a new discovery as far as China is concerned either. Back in 2006 Skype were quick to counter charges of the same by insisting conversations were both protected and private.

“The text filter operates on the chat message content before it is encrypted for transmission, or after it has been decrypted on the receiver side. If the message is found unsuitable for displaying, it is simply discarded and not displayed or transmitted anywhere” a Skype statement read.

Source [ ITWire ]

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