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== Security and Privacy of Skype ==
== Security and Privacy of Skype ==
Kurt Sauer, Skype's Chief Security Officer in an interview, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not."<ref>{{cite web|author=ZDNet.de |url=http://www.zdnet.de/mobiles_internet_drahtloses_arbeiten_telefonieren_uebers_internet_wie_sicher_ist_skype_wirklich_story-39001620-39151472-1.htm |title=Telefonieren übers Internet: Wie sicher ist Skype wirklich? – Telekommunikation | Mobile Business |publisher=ZDNet.de |date=|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> This didn't deny the fact revealed by [[Edward Snowden]] in June 2013 that the [[NSA]] [[mass surveillance|monitors]] Skype conversations both international and domestic. The Skype software uses a non-[[Open source]] proprietary protocol. The [[Free Software Foundation]] (FSF) is worried about [[privacy]] issues caused by proprietary software and protocols, thus they have made the development of a secure Skype replacement alternative one of their projects of high priority.<ref>"[http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#skypereplacement FSF High Priority Projects]", [[Free Software Foundation]]. Accessed December 8, 2014.</ref>
Kurt Sauer, Skype's Chief Security Officer in an interview, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not."<ref>{{cite web|author=ZDNet.de |url=http://www.zdnet.de/mobiles_internet_drahtloses_arbeiten_telefonieren_uebers_internet_wie_sicher_ist_skype_wirklich_story-39001620-39151472-1.htm |title=Telefonieren übers Internet: Wie sicher ist Skype wirklich? – Telekommunikation | Mobile Business |publisher=ZDNet.de |date=|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> This didn't deny the fact revealed by [[Edward Snowden]] in June 2013 that the [[NSA]] [[mass surveillance|monitors]] Skype conversations both international and domestic. The Skype software uses a non-[[open source]] proprietary protocol. The [[Free Software Foundation]] (FSF) is worried about [[privacy]] issues caused by proprietary software and protocols, thus they have made the development of a secure Skype replacement alternative one of their projects of high priority.<ref>"[http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#skypereplacement FSF High Priority Projects]", [[Free Software Foundation]]. Accessed December 8, 2014.</ref>
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** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
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==See also==
==See also==