Part of this change was based on Microsoft's decision to move Skype from more of a peer-to-peer communications system to a server-based service. NSA documents boasted of the inclusion of Skype into its PRISM dragnet surveillance system, calling it a 'team sport' to share Skype data between the FBI and the CIA. According to documents obtained from whistle-blower Edward Snowden by UK newspaper The Guardian, the U.S.'s National Security Agency is bragging about it.Īccording to the newspaper, Microsoft worked closely with the NSA to allow the agency to circumvent the encryption used by Skype.
While Skype calls used to be secure from government or private snooping, changes made by Microsoft have made it possible for the government(s) to do just that.
