Here is an interesting article from last month that I found this evening. The Swiss government has been testing a “surveillance” tool to monitor VoIP communications. Now, this could range anywhere from a packet sniffer to the folks at Narus.
According to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, police and intelligence services could could infect users’ computers with this Trojan horse program and listen to their VoIP conversations. Any such move, though, would be subject to judicial approval.The encryption used by VoIP communications such as Skype is easier to circumvent if investigators have access to the computers used to send the data, SonntagsZeitung said.
Now I find this a little odd when the police could simply insert a sniffer at the ISP. Not sure if there is any real credibility to this story but, stranger things have happened. I’m not entirely certain why they would waste time on a trojan software when they could simply intercept the traffic. While some *cough* news services think it’s impossible to monitor Skype calls (for example) but, we have seen criminals get pinched through their Skype calls.
Tags: Swiss Wire Taps, VoIP, Skype, VoIP Trojan
