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>I can't wrap my head around data collection. After Microsoft bought Skype, they changed it from p2p to centralized, so all calls were routed through NSA PRISM
by andai 3y ago
>I can't wrap my head around data collection.
After Microsoft bought Skype, they changed it from p2p to centralized, so all calls were routed through NSA PRISM. This also had the result of making calls laggier and worse quality.
I think there might be a bit of that sort of thing going on in other places too.
- rcarmo 3y agoI just have to ask--what evidence do you have of that, and do you understand how SIP works?
- andai 3y agoLooked into the Snowden files a while back. 80% sure that part wasn't a dream ;) Edit: Extraordinary claims require ... 30 seconds of Googling, apparently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol#Peer-to-peer_architecture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol#Peer-to-peer_...