3 October 2011
Skype, Gmail and Hotmail handed over encryption codes to the Russian security services, according to a report by Georgian news agency InterKavkaz.
An expert of the news agency on information technology Alexis Kestrel says, that in the first place that will give the KGB a chance to "hinder" those to whom "the KGB (FSB) was not indifferent also in the past".
"The news was expected - the FSB forced Skype, Gmail and Hotmail to deliver to it signal encrypt codes. What will it change? Almost nothing because the KGB lost the information arms race long ago.
Now they know whom and where to eavesdrop, the services gave them ciphers as a gift. Direct eavesdropping and search by code words would be easier for the KGB. All that will be surely carried out in the name of fighting the Mujahideen and dissidents whom they now call extremists. But those against whom these measures are primarily aimed will not be covered by the eavesdropping.
They are already using other services. And in order to force Yahoo to hand over the codes to the KGB they need another year and a half of negotiations. By then, the Mujahideen and dissidents will be using a new service. It's just useless in terms of security logic.
But from their our own, purely Russian point of view, everybody in the KGB will be busy with something. They will be able to listen to bankers, politicians and their own wives, children and others. The work in the Department for combating free-thinking and the Jihad using of high technology has always brought advantages to its operatives", said Alexey Kestrel to the Interkavkaz agency.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://www.kavkaz.org.uk/eng/content/2011/10/03/15207.shtml.
Skype, Gmail and Hotmail handed over encryption codes to the Russian security services, according to a report by Georgian news agency InterKavkaz.
An expert of the news agency on information technology Alexis Kestrel says, that in the first place that will give the KGB a chance to "hinder" those to whom "the KGB (FSB) was not indifferent also in the past".
"The news was expected - the FSB forced Skype, Gmail and Hotmail to deliver to it signal encrypt codes. What will it change? Almost nothing because the KGB lost the information arms race long ago.
Now they know whom and where to eavesdrop, the services gave them ciphers as a gift. Direct eavesdropping and search by code words would be easier for the KGB. All that will be surely carried out in the name of fighting the Mujahideen and dissidents whom they now call extremists. But those against whom these measures are primarily aimed will not be covered by the eavesdropping.
They are already using other services. And in order to force Yahoo to hand over the codes to the KGB they need another year and a half of negotiations. By then, the Mujahideen and dissidents will be using a new service. It's just useless in terms of security logic.
But from their our own, purely Russian point of view, everybody in the KGB will be busy with something. They will be able to listen to bankers, politicians and their own wives, children and others. The work in the Department for combating free-thinking and the Jihad using of high technology has always brought advantages to its operatives", said Alexey Kestrel to the Interkavkaz agency.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://www.kavkaz.org.uk/eng/content/2011/10/03/15207.shtml.
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