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Impossible to wiretap or monitor? The Skype client was an obfuscated blob! There's no reason to believe it wasn't trivial for Skype to wiretap individuals. Afte

Impossible to wiretap or monitor? The Skype client was an obfuscated blob! There's no reason to believe it wasn't trivial for Skype to wiretap individuals. After all, authentication authority was centralized. Here's a simple test: is there a password recovery feature you can do via email or so? There may have been evil reasons for Skype's change. Or maybe, MS realised that needlessly taking customer resources to run the Skype network isn't suitable behavior?

_nedR 11y ago
>There's no reason to believe it wasn't trivial for Skype to wiretap individuals. You could still glean info from monitoring the network communication (although i personally haven't done anything). Also if the leaked docs are to be believed, the fact that the agencies boasted a 3-fold increase in intercept-able traffic post-acquisition, then it is reasonable to assume that wiretapping was non-trivial before.