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Skype is not secure. Why not XMPP?

• Galanwe 12y ago
  Can you elaborate on that?
  • hueving 12y ago
    Skype is closed source and is known to have relayed links to Microsoft from chat (because it subsequently crawled them).
    • Galanwe 12y ago
      Closed source and insecure are really different problems... As for "is known to have relayed links to Microsoft from chat" I dont even get what it is supposed to imply. Some Microsoft conspiracy to listen to Strong AI chats?
      • davorak 12y ago
        Skype at one point was somewhat decentralized, but now the main hubs are located on Microsoft's servers to my understanding. urls included in Skype chats have been known to be visited by bots at Microsoft owned IPs so no end to end encryption of urls at the very least. If I remember correctly Microsofts reasoning is that the bots at Microsoft check to make sure the links are not infected with malware. That are the two pieces of evidence that I see brought up when people have conversations on the topic.
    • Houshalter 12y ago
      Privacy isn't really a concern for this project. We might even have public logs at some point. And pretty much anyone can join and lurk.