In the evening on March 5, 2012, in Cairo, Egyptian Revolution attacked headquarters Secret police referred to the state investigation (SSI), a building known as “the capital of hell” because reputation is a spotted place tortured.
Inside, the demonstrators find two intact and swollen and CD devices, hard drives, and DVDs – the decoration of the night and spread supervision.
Between documents, demonstration found the memorandum Written in Arabic by SSI officer about the mysterious software called Fincfisher, created by the English-German Gamma International-German company.
The officer reported that the document is “the level hacking system” with the ability to access the inbox, and by using the most secure device “because Skype is encrypted.
In the early 2010, Skype is the most popular Internet calling application, and not only in Egypt.
Launched in 2003, Skype promises the user Private policy has never been relevant to the latest encryption, theory – made impossible for the Internet hack and delayed the Egyptians to be hack directly to the person’s computer with the target of the target skype.
“Skype phones have a good and secure sound quality with late-end encryption,” Skype’s main page See in 2004.
Skype encryption is a revolutionary feature and groundbreaking at the time. In the mid-1990s, Legendary Legendary Cryptographer, Phil Zimmermann Create a good privacy, or PGP, software that allows people to create a file or email privately The rear-to-end encryptionThe meaning of the sender and the receiver can read the content of the message. But PGP is good and it is not included in the conversation and phone that is easy to use.
Currently, more than 20 years ago, the last encryption is used by billion people, most of the messages and secure phones with technology that scrambling this data. IMessage and FaceTime Apple, Facebook Messenger, Signal, and Whatsapp, among others, all can be encrypted to the end by default.
But in 2003, Skype is the first to offer this encryption and privacy.
After launch, Skype Sparked anger between the law enforcement agencies around the world. In Italy, Police Police (Postal police), Agency is assigned to the crime on the Internet, according to the former employee of the time I have said.
The rest of the world, another government finds various ways to spy on Skype Users. In 2008, Lab citizens, digital research group digital research at Toronto University, finding Skype has been converted to allow the chinese spies to collect messages exchanged in the service. In China, Skype operates by Tom-Skype, a shared equipment between China’s wireless carriers and eBays, which Skype are owned at the time.
The next year, the secret file leak by the US Government contractor Snowden announced that Microsoft, which now has Skype, has changed the national security agency and the authority To collect your phone and messageeffectively beat the app encryption effectively.
This week, Microsoft announced that will close Skype 5th MaySee rankings-. At this time, Skype is the application of fringe. In 2023, Microsoft said that still had 36 million users, crying away from 300 million peaks.
When Skype is generally relicing of yesteryear and will stop, the Skypely manisters live in technology that secure communication all the most popular in the world. And the world is safer, freer, thanks to the original groundbreaking developers’ groundbreaking ideas about privacy.
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