1.0 link 131076 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-standaert/chinas-skyping-on-you_b_131076.html BEIJING: When in China, don't use Skype. Well, at least not the Chinese version called Tom-Skype, a joint venture between eBay (owner of Skype) and Tom Online. Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto have found that a "huge surveillance system in China" has been monitoring and tracking text messages sent through Tom-Skype. Basically if you type certain sensitive words like democracy your messages might be archived in their monitoring system. It also seems to block some of...

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