he qualified with "i believe," but whether that was a motivation at the outset or not is the only issue in contention: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/ju

he qualified with "i believe," but whether that was a motivation at the outset or not is the only issue in contention: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-... it is well known that skype's crypto has always been an obfuscated black box (this may have been primarily to prevent reverse engineered clients using the protocol but it makes backdoors much less detectable), and transitioning from p2p to centralized architecture (which iirc was done after the ebay acquisition) where one party holds the keys obviously makes snooping easier