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The FBI reported using Skype personal conversations intercepted as the basis for the case of MegaUpload, but there are still confusing about exactly how the FBI obtained this conversation.
The U.S. Justice Department told CNET that the evidence was obtained through a search warrant, and Skype is not required to give any information to the FBI. According to the privacy policy, Skype only store data for 30 days, while some of the conversations that the FBI had access to back up to five years. If the FBI does not receive data directly from Skype, it is likely that there are some tracking software embedded in computer executive MegaUpload, and there is historical precedent for that scenario.
In 2007, the FBI installs spyware known as CIPAV on the computer of a suspected bomb threat that sends email. The software is reporting back to the records of communication that occurs. Similar software can certainly break into a conversation on Skype, but these are just predictions sementara.Sedangkan for Skype conversation sessions that are not legible, Stuff.co.nz reveal details of conversations between the founder MegaUpload, Mathias Ortmann and chief programmer Bram van der Kolk, where two men were worried about what Kim Dotcom would do if the company in legal trouble. As reported, Van der Kolk said in a conversation in 2007, "Is he going to take some money and go in the end. He was smart to do it right?"
