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Chinese snoop on Skype, but are they alone?

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."... ...full story at AP

from AP on Thu, Oct 02 2008

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