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TIL Microsoft installed a backdoor in Skype to allow Chinese, Russian and United States law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on Skype conversations, as well as have access to Skype users’ geographic locations after they purchased Skype in 2011 for the law enforcement agencies around the world.

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