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Chinese snoop on Skype, but are they alone?

A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay's Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy." ...full story at Independent

from Independent on Fri, Oct 03 2008

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