http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php ... &sid=17720
Quote:
The federal government is funding the development of a prototype surveillance tool by George Mason University researchers who have discovered a novel way to trace Internet phone conversations. Their project is designed to let police identify whether suspects under surveillance have been communicating through voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)--information that would be unavailable today if people choose to communicate surreptitiously. The eavesdropping technique already has been shown to work with Skype, the researchers say.
http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/Feds+fund ... 25932.html
Skype, nice program but who knows how 'secure' it is?
security through obscurity. security by keeping an exploitable weakness hidden
Kerckhoffs' law
a cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge