Skype Admits it Knew About Screening
Skype, one of the net’s best VoIP providers admits through its president their knowledge of the screening process the Chinese government exacts on their system which scans for specific sets of keywords and other indicators that prevented specific content from being let through. This is according to their contract with the Chinese government that had very strict and specifically defined screening procedures to their search engine to which a program did all the dirty work. This gives credence to rumors of censorship of the Communist state that through TOM, the Chinese company that handled their local business had been given access to their API which were copied onto their own servers and made to process the screening of SMS messaging to prevent specific thing s form getting through. Read more…
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Greg
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