Keywords trigger monitoring of Skype messages

SINO DAILY

by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008
A group of computer security experts at the University of Toronto has revealed that the Chinese partner of the Skype online text messaging service was spying on Skype users in China.

The following is a list of politically sensitive keywords which Citizen Lab said triggered the monitoring of the Internet chat of TOM-Skype users in China:

-- communist

-- Communist Party

-- Falun

-- Hu Jintao

-- Taiwan independence

-- Skype

-- Wen Jiabao

-- quit the party

-- Jiang Zemin

-- June 4

-- Olympic Games

-- Nine Commentaries

-- Li Hongzhi

-- earthquake

-- democracy

-- Tibet

-- Mao Zedong

-- Circumvention

-- Deng Xiaoping

-- Diaoyu Islands

-- Kuomintang

-- Tiananmen

-- milk powder

-- SARS

-- Voice of America

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