Bill Campbell

Is Skype in China risking compromising their encryption and anonymity model?

September 8, 2005 10:19 AM

Topics: Asia | Security | Technology

"Is Skype in China risking compromising their encryption and anonymity model?" so asks my Danish contact Torben Nyhuus after reading this article on Yahoo turning state's evidence:

Information supplied by Yahoo! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison

It is an interesting question. The Skype Partner TOM does have a different version of Skype. H'mmmm...




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Posted by: fons at September 8, 2005 1:17 PM

No clue how the situation is now, but in April users in China could most certainly not get full access to the international service:
http://www.chinaherald.net/2005/04/internet-has-skype-been-blocked.html

Posted by: ACB at September 10, 2005 2:57 AM

SkypeOut has now been banned in some regions of China.

Posted by: Foudasie at September 12, 2005 5:47 AM

Here is Chinese News paper extracts.
China Telecom is protecting his business !!!!

China Telecom to block Internet telephony providers like Sykpe
XFN Daily News, 2005-9-12

China Telecom, the nation's biggest fixed-line telephony provider, is working to shut down computer-to-telephone call services, to force people to pay for its much more expensive offering, state press said.
China Telecom is presently experimenting with blocking computer-to-telephone and computer-to-computer services in the major urban centers of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Beijing Business Today reported.
If the system proves effective, the fixed-line provider hopes to install it nationwide by 2006-2007, it said.
Such measures are aimed at blocking Internet telephony companies, like Skype, a European company whose software includes the fee-paying "SkypeOut" service in China and free computer-to-computer telephone services elsewhere, the paper said.

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