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He phrased it like a conspiracy theorist, but it's a little naive to think that intercept capability wasn't a factor in this decision. As far as I know skype wa

He phrased it like a conspiracy theorist, but it's a little naive to think that intercept capability wasn't a factor in this decision. As far as I know skype was the biggest player in communications that wasn't being completely monitored.

SpiderX 15y ago
Skype went down for a couple days about a year or two ago, as did a few other voip services at around the same time. I suspect this is more than just a single company that is behind it, rather the US government.
- freshhawk 15y ago
  Sure, it's not a secret that the NSA is the one pulling in all of the data they can get their hands on right now. And they absolutely want all skype traffic, since they already have all internet and phone traffic.
- dfc 15y ago
  What day was this?
mutagen 15y ago
My first thought as well, this is simply a quiet decision to make it easier to comply with sealed warrants.
- danssig 15y ago
  Ideally companies would be making it harder or impossible to comply with sealed warrants.