German Police looking to Trojan SSL and Skype

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I read an article this morning about Law Enforcement in Germany making some moves to install trojans for obtaining SSL and Skype access. I figured with the PSP's enabled Skype Functionality, that this was worth mentioning.

 

One of the two documents appears to be a letter from the Bavarian Ministry of Justice to prosecutors. It discloses that a company named DigiTask was contracted to provide the Trojan horse, or Skype Capture Unit. The document discusses who is responsible - the Bavarian police or prosecutors -- for the cost of surveilling VoIP traffic used in criminal proceedings.

 

According to this document and the second one dated September 4 of last year -- which appears to be a letter from DigiTask to government authorities outlining how the program would work and its costs -- the police would be required to rent the software at a cost of EURO 3,500 a month, for a minimum of three months. In addition to the rental fee, the letter describes a one-time installation and de-installation fee of EURO 2,500 (the software de-installs itself after a set timeframe but can also be de-installed manually at any time), plus the cost of renting two proxy servers used to route the collected data to police. The document also mentions an additional EURO 2,500 required to rent SSL-decoding.

 

Damn, that's quite the price tag for the SSL Decryption.

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Blast from the past. This whole Skype backdooring has come true. The current flavor of confirmation is http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-May/004224.html]Skype slurping HTTPS page info[/url] and intercepting chat messages.

 

Microsoft gotta make that money, botting the shit out of any links you post into skype chat. I had concerns with Skype, but once Microsoft bought them, my theories about it being a huge backdoor weren't too far fetched. Uninstall that shit, I did and will not put it back on my rigs.