I am in China, and my friend is in the US. If I use Skype via GPass, but my friend does not, do I gain any security benefit from GPass?
You are saying that you are in China using Skype via GPass, but your friend is using Skype overseas without GPass. In this case, your Skype data will be encrypted through GPass, first sent to the GPass overseas servers and then after the GPass servers decrypt it, it is sent to your friend. The data your friend sends to you will be returned in the opposite way. In terms of security, there are two benefits to doing it this way: 1. Even if your copy of Skype had a backdoor, your chat data will not be intercepted inside China because GPass helps you to encrypt it; and 2. your Skype basically will not connect with a Skype supernode inside China (which could be a trap set by the Public Security Bureau).
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