A Canadian research group called Citizen Lab, which is associated with the University of Toronto, has turned up a publicly available Chinese database that not only contains literally thousands of politically sensitive words blocked by the state, but also the names and details of Skype subscribers, meaning that the state has been censoring and blocking VoIP Skype calls and texts, according to the BBC.
Citizen Lab says the Chinese system picks up and stores messages using the sensitive terms, and has over 150,000 in its database – which seems to be not especially secure, according to Citizen Lab’s Breaching Trust report.
