Taliban using Skype phones to dodge MI6
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Taliban fighters targeting British troops in Afghanistan are using the latest ‘internet phones’ to evade detection by MI6, security sources said last night.
Skype, a popular piece of consumer software that allows free calls to be made over the web, has been adopted by insurgents to communicate with cells strung out across the country.
Unlike traditional mobile calls, which can be monitored by RAF Nimrod spy planes, Skype calls – the commercial application of a technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) – are heavily encrypted.
Web of deceit: Taliban internet calls are hard to monitor
Voice calls are broken into millions of pieces of data before being sent down the line and reassembled by the other caller’s computer.
The British and American governments are investing considerable resources to crack the codes, and in the UK the Government is introducing legislation to force internet service providers to log all web activity by subscribers, which could then be turned over to the security services on demand.
The disclosure comes as the 8,000 British troops in Afghanistan are facing attacks almost daily from an increasingly well co-ordinated Taliban.
‘The trouble with this technology is that it is easily available but devilishly hard to crack,’ the source said. ‘The technology can now be accessed on mobile internet devices and the country’s mobile phone network is expanding rapidly.’
Skype was created in 2003 and three years ago was bought by eBay for £1.4billion. It has 300million accounts and at any one time, more than 12million people are using the service.
Sir David Pepper, the head of GCHQ, the British Government’s top-secret listening post, has told MPs that internet calls are ‘seriously undermining’ his organisation’s ability to intercept communications.
Skype said last night it did not want to comment.
Source: Daily Mail UK, September 13, 2008 -
den how?!!!
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thinking soldier
thinking terrorist
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its maskirova , skype phone are hard to crack alright, but all they have to do is tap into the ISP and hack through the account...u see skype admin can and do have options to lisnt and record your call...its just that they didnt do it in the name of privacy (or they allegedly didnt).
By saying skype are hell to be cracked, are suppose to trick the insurgent into more and more using the skype. All the government need to do is identify which login the terrorist use...and walla!
The oldest trick in the book...i wonder if the terrorist fall for it. Maskirova
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wat kind of conspiracy theory is dat.
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ha ha im just winding up....i wonder what kind of broadband they use in afganistan?
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im sure osama has an FB account too
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I can't stand the Taliban's and Al Qaeda's hypocrisy...they want to send society back to the stone age, yet they make use of modern technology themselves - created by Europeans no less.
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There nothing these two countries cant intercept.(America & the U.K) They have the world's best code crackers and the best system analysis personnel all cramped into the famed NSA alone.
Only God knows what current latest technologies they are having now and are applying it to all of us unknowingly.
The CIA and NSA alone are a frightening deadly combination. Let alone joining forces with the British MI6.
To track and intercept Skype is just like asking them to intercept MSN messages. Lol....Child-play..
HEHE HAHAHA HOO HAA HEE HAA HOO "The joker's laugh in Dark Knight"
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
I can't stand the Taliban's and Al Qaeda's hypocrisy...they want to send society back to the stone age, yet they make use of modern technology themselves - created by Europeans no less.
wahahaha.