Russian intelligence services still know how to listen to Skype

This statement was put forward today in the morning by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the specialists of the “participants of the information security market”.

According to sources, Skype has been tapped since Microsoft bought the service in 2011. It has already been said that Microsoft can transfer the source code of the program to special services, but this information has not yet been officially confirmed.
However, technically it became possible not due to the transfer of the source code (if, of course, it was), but due to the fact that suspicious subscribers switch to a special mode in which encryption keys are generated not by the client, but on the server , Maxim Emm states i.o Peak Systems
Legally, setting on a “special regime” can occur not only by a court decision, but also by simple request - other anonymous sources assert. Representatives of the Interior Ministry and the FSB declined to comment, but one of the Interior Ministry officials said that listening to Skype was not a problem.