Skype Says It Was Unaware of China Message-logging

Skype was unaware of a major privacy problem affecting Skype users in China, the company's president said Thursday.

In a blog posting to the eBay subsidiary's corporate blog, Skype President Josh Silverman said his company had no idea that the Tom-Skype software, distributed to Skype users in China, was logging chat messages and storing them on a publicly accessible server. "It was our understanding that it was not Tom's protocol to upload and store chat messages with certain keywords," he wrote.

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