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Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls 156

mikejuk writes "You might think of linguistics as being interesting but not really useful. Now computational linguistics [PDF of original paper] has been used to crack Skype encryption and reconstruct what is being said in a VoIP call. What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken."
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Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls

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