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Skype, the online phone service long favored by political dissidents, criminals and others eager to communicate beyond the reach of governments, has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement authorities to make online chats and other user information available to police, said industry and government officials familiar with the changes. Surveillance of the audio and video feeds remains impractical — even when courts issue warrants, say industry officials with direct knowledge of the matter. But that barrier could eventually vanish as Skype becomes one of the world’s most popular forms of telecommunication. The changes to online chats, which are written messages conveyed almost instantaneously between users, result in part from technical upgrades to Skype that were instituted to address outages and other stability issues since Microsoft bought the company last year. Officials of the United States and other countries have long pushed to expand their access to newe...

Microsoft a cumparat Skype pentru 8.5 miliarde de dolari in mai 2011, o suma extrem de mare pe care nici un analist nu o preconiza la vremea aceea. Inca putin si se face anul iar Microsoft nu pare sa miste ceva in acest sens. Totusi acum s-ar putea sa apara niste indicii despre planurile gigantului. Cineva a descoperit pe siteul companiei un post la Microsoft a carui descriere spune asa: “team-oriented and self-motivated developers to help us bring [the] Skype experience on to the Web.” Concluzia e simpla, se vrea Skype cu interfata web, asta chiar parea sa fie urmatorul pas. Cand se va implementa asa ceva? Nu se stie, avand in vedere ca anuntul e recent ar putea sa mai dureze inca un an. Sursa: arenaIT