Hasn't this been on HN more than once? Yes, it has. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+http%3A%2F%2Fskype-open-source.blogspot.ch%2F htt

Hasn't this been on HN more than once? Yes, it has. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+http%3A%2F%2Fskype-open-source.blogspot.ch%2F http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+h... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753155 and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skypeopensource http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skypeopensource We've been over this (re: wiretapping). Skype uses supernodes for STUN traversal and UDP hole punching, otherwise communication is peer to peer. Even if this were true, it would only apply to traffic that Skype is TURN tunneling, which is very minimal and can be avoided by one client simply not having a corporate, full-cone NAT router. It's really hard to take this seriously when it's obviously not a good faith use of the phrase "open source" and it's littered with tags like "#OWS", etc. If you want open source, encrypted voice communication, it's easy to find. edit: To cover all bases, if there is some implication of collaboration between Skype and the government, there is still the potential that the US could be listening in on peer to peer communications. I don't find the Azure/Super-nodes to be evidence of that.