Experts: Keyword spying on Skype users
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 13:41:00 10/03/2008
Filed Under: Technology (general), Internet
WASHINGTON -- A group of computer security experts at the University of Toronto has revealed that the Chinese partner of the Skype online text messaging service was spying on Skype users in China.
The following is a list of politically sensitive keywords which Citizen Lab said triggered the monitoring of the Internet chat of TOM-Skype users in China:
Communist, Communist Party, Falun, Hu Jintao, Taiwan independence, Skype, Wen Jiabao, quit the party, Jiang Zemin, June 4, Olympic Games, Nine Commentaries, Li Hongzhi, earthquake, democracy, Tibet, Mao Zedong, Circumvention, Deng Xiaoping, Diaoyu Islands, Kuomintang, Tiananmen, milk powder, SARS, Voice of America.
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