The FBI would have evidence obtained in the MegaUpload case through internal chat traffic between employees that Skype was, in their hands. Possible, the investigating authorities spyware used to obtain this.
The U.s. department of Justice says in his evidence at the obtain of the chat conversations, which were conducted via the instant messaging function of Skype, and has the necessary permission of the court. It is striking that some of the conversations in the chat logs between MegaUpload employees already five years old and dating from the period that the cyberlocker his first steps on the internet, reports Cnet.
Skype would not by the FBI, are approached to the chat logs to the voip provider, currently in the hands of Microsoft, promises itself to be terms and conditions that the chat logs will no longer save than thirty days. Has the FBI using spyware the log files on a pc of a MegaUpload employee, know booty. The federal investigating authorities have in the past often made use of this controversial method, among others, by the so-called CIPAV-spyware on systems of suspects. Probably during the upcoming trial, more clarity about the method used.
In the interception of chat conversations would be to read that the Dutch programmer and network administrator at MegaUpload Bram van der K. and co-founder Mathias Ortmann were afraid that the eccentric owner Kim Dotcom with the bedrijfskas off would go. Dotcom, meanwhile, secured after the rejection of bail, is accused of facilitating auteursrechteninbreuk and money laundering. Also would MegaUpload, according to the FBI a criminal organization.