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Skype could be cut off for good over dispute
(TIMES ONLINE) Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work. EBay, which paid $2.6 billion (£1.6 billion) for the...
View ArticleEBay to unload big stake in Skype
(CNN Money) EBay announced a deal Tuesday to sell most of its Skype Internet phone unit to a group of investors for $2.75 billion. The buyers include private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, venture...
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FBI: We Need Wiretap Ready Web Sites… NOW
(CNET) CNET has learned the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance back doors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not...
View ArticleIt’s Terrifying And Sickening That Microsoft Can Now Listen In On All My...
(FORBES) There was a wildly terrifying story published late Friday on Slate that didn’t get much attention because of the time of the week it was released. In it, the author – Ryan Gallagher – lays...
View ArticleDown The Rabbit Hole w/ Popeye (10-19-2012) Guns, Self Defense, Skype Spies &...
(FEDERALJACK) On this edition of DTRH Popeye talks about guns and self defense. Using audio clips and articles he shows multiple examples of people being able to defend themselves with a firearm from...
View ArticleFBI to monitor online chats in real-time by 2014
(RT) The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t have the ability to monitor everyone’s one-on-one Internet chats in real-time just yet, but the agency’s chief lawyer says all that should soon...
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Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption? Think again
(ARS TECHNICA) If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of...
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Microsoft Is Turning Skype Into a Glorified Mobile App
(FEDERALJACK) Microsoft has killed Skype (in a manner of speaking), and dealt a major blow to the alternative media as a whole in doing so. After December 2013 they are pretty much turning Skype...
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