Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Nick Daly
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Cynthia Wong wrote: > > Why are RU and CN (most glaringly) absent from the first chart > enumerating the number (and type) of requests by country? It's hard to > believe those countries' security services have no interest in > (non-Skype) Microsoft data. Is MS de

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Eugen, Of course you're right, and I've made that specific argument about closed-source crypto many times before. But it's still interesting since we're trying to glean as much information as possible from that report here, which is a first for Skype. NK On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Eugen

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:08:42PM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > Regarding SSL, hasn't Skype claimed in the past that the conversations are > encrypted client-to-client, as in, even from Microsoft or Skype itself? Why is it relevant what they claimed? You can't check it, so why spend any time on

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
ights Watch > > > > -Original Message- > From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto: > liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Eric S Johnson > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:49 PM > To: 'liberationtech' > Subject: Re: [

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Cynthia Wong
s.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Eric S Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:49 PM To: 'liberationtech' Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report > I wrote to them and asked these questions, as well as a

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Cynthia Wong
ationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report On 03/21/2013 10:37 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Joseph Lorenzo Hall: >> > >> > >> > On Thu Mar 21 12:27:47 2013, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >>> >> Joseph Lorenzo Hall: >>>

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Eric S Johnson
> I wrote to them and asked these questions, as well as a few others. > > What other questions should we pose to them, I wonder? Why are RU and CN (most glaringly) absent from the first chart enumerating the number (and type) of requests by country? It's hard to believe those countries' security

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 3/21/13 5:27 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > I don't agree with that reading of the report. There is likely a lot of > word-smithing here - for example, Does Skype include SkypeIn and > SkypeOut or just Peer to Peer video, text and storage of (other) > meta-data? Does CALEA happen on the Skype side

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Dan Auerbach
On 03/21/2013 10:37 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Joseph Lorenzo Hall: >> > >> > >> > On Thu Mar 21 12:27:47 2013, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >>> >> Joseph Lorenzo Hall: >>> Two things seem particularly interesting: apparently zero requests for >>> content were fulfilled for Skype and the as

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Joseph Lorenzo Hall: > > > On Thu Mar 21 12:27:47 2013, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >> Joseph Lorenzo Hall: >>> Two things seem particularly interesting: apparently zero requests for >>> content were fulfilled for Skype and the associated FAQ [1] says CALEA >>> (the US law that mandates intercept capa

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On Thu Mar 21 12:27:47 2013, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Joseph Lorenzo Hall: >> Two things seem particularly interesting: apparently zero requests for >> content were fulfilled for Skype and the associated FAQ [1] says CALEA >> (the US law that mandates intercept capability) does not apply to Skype

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Joseph Lorenzo Hall: > Two things seem particularly interesting: apparently zero requests for > content were fulfilled for Skype and the associated FAQ [1] says CALEA > (the US law that mandates intercept capability) does not apply to Skype. > That seems particularly encouraging to me. > > The FAQ

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Stefan Geens
Re MSFT transparency, congrats on the result. In its FAQ. MSFT seems to answer quite unequivocally that Skype still encrypts Skype-Skype calls on a peer-to-peer basis: "We provide SSL encryption for Microsoft services and Skype-Skype calls on our full client (for full function computers) are en

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Well done!! Sent from my iPhone On 21 Mar 2013, at 14:10, "Nadim Kobeissi" mailto:na...@nadim.cc>> wrote: We did it! Our Skype Open Letter worked!!! *Pats self on back* NK On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Losey mailto:lo...@newamerica.net>> wrote: >From the blog post: "As noted in

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Two things seem particularly interesting: apparently zero requests for content were fulfilled for Skype and the associated FAQ [1] says CALEA (the US law that mandates intercept capability) does not apply to Skype. That seems particularly encouraging to me. The FAQ is also interesting in that the

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
We did it! Our Skype Open Letter worked!!! *Pats self on back* NK On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Losey wrote: > From the blog post: > > "As noted in the data table (available in the PDF below) in 2012, > Microsoft and Skype received a total of 75,378 law enforcement requests. > Thos

[liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread James Losey
>From the blog post: "As noted in the data table (available in the PDF below) in 2012, Microsoft and Skype received a total of 75,378 law enforcement requests. Those requests potentially impacted 137,424 accounts. While it is not possible to directly compare the number of requests to the number of