The article concludes: There’s no evidence that anyone, human or machine, is reading your confidential messages. Well obviously, a machine is reading your conf

The article concludes: There’s no evidence that anyone, human or machine, is reading your confidential messages. Well obviously, a machine is reading your confidential messages, if only to scan them for links. In the most benign case, the link scanning could be done in the skype client (closed source software on your machine), and MS's servers are seeing a list of links + an encrypted message. But we just don't know, do we?