Since you should be unsure if the Skype encryption is broken or not, voice recognition software could be used to find out who you are. Voice recognition software also got very sophisticated. Remember, you are not in control of Skype's encryption keys and Skype is not Open Source, thus do not rely on Skype's encryption. Consider the Skype encryption broken by the Skype authority.Īnother obvious thing, if you chat with people, who have not created their account over Tor and who have not always connected over Tor, it's also not so hard to guess who you are. Security doesn't depend on your local security and key management, but on a third party, the Skype authority. You really should assume, that they have logs and link your Tor and non-Tor use together. just research) it's very much likely that they link all your account names inside Whonix-Workstation to the same pseudonym.Īlso obviously, if you log into an account, which you have ever used without Tor, consider the account non-anonymous. Skype is closed source and given Skype's history (reading BIOS etc. Consider Skype usage pseudonymous rather than anonymous. Those are not Whonix or Tor issues, those are Skype issues. Some further comments you should be aware of: Skype has been tested in Whonix, it "works" quite well, still recommended against. I can understand that Skype might be inherently 'spy friendly' due to it's closed source nature and slow.)Ī relevant quote from Whonix documentation about Skype answers that.ĭoes this mean that, for example, is my IP and location safe when using Skype? (Please explain whether this might be a good or a bad idea in the first place. (Full disclosure: I am a maintainer of Whonix.)
You also have to consider the protocol level.
Routing all traffic through Tor is nowadays not the only thing. Transparent Proxies such as Whonix and QubesOS TorVM can route all traffic through Tor. From what I can see Tor mainly handles your web browser's traffic, but is there a way to do all of your connections through it? Like email, Dropbox, Carbonite backup, Skype etc?
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