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I would be a fan of Skype, if they did not route everything through government spyware.

• reitanqild 11y ago
  While I'm not sure that's what they do they DID get caught red-handed a couple of years ago snooping on urls sent over Skype.
  • Phlarp 11y ago
    "route everything through government surveillance" is perhaps a bit too blunt, but let's not forget that Microsoft was the founding member of the PRISM program. And Prism or no Prism-- Skype was a $1bn present from Microsoft to the intelligence community. Even if they never snooped on anything (we know they have) they did re-engineer skype in a manner that allows it to be subject to more traditional CALEA trap and trace techniques, as well a numerous side channel attacks and traffic interception. The "secret sauce" of Skype in the very beginning was P2P connections, which MSFT immediately removed.
    • Zekio 11y ago
      Isn't skype still P2P?? otherwise why would it have an option to disallow P2P between you and people you don't know?
      • pmlnr 11y ago
        http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supernodes-for-scalability-not-surveillance/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supe...
  • criddell 11y ago
    I don't know if I would characterize what they were doing as snooping. Is Google snooping when GMail does a keyword scan of your email? IIRC, Microsoft was loading the URL to look for malware.