Report Claims TOM-Skype Stores User Data on Unsecure Servers

[JMcEntegart]

A report released this week by Canadian researchers alleges TomSkype, the Chinese version of Ebay’s Skype, run in cooperation with Tom Online, monitors users Skype chats, scanning for certain words.

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[Guest]

In April 2006, we publicly disclosed that TOM operated a text filter that blocked certain words in chat messages - it was also our understanding that it was not TOM's protocol to upload and store chat messages with certain keywords, and we are now inquiring with TOM to find out why the protocol changed.

Josh Silverman, Skype's President, has blogged about the situation, explaining where we stand and what we're doing to sort things out.