The reason Microsoft bought Skype at the ridiculous price it paid, is because the NSA paid the entire bill to get it into hands of someone who could make it accessible to snooping.
On August 8, 2014 9:01:10 PM PDT, "David C. Rankin"
On 08/07/2014 06:04 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 2014-08-06 a las 23:00 -0500, Philip Amadeo Saeli escribió:
* John Andersen <> [2014-08-06 19:51]:
I just refuse to use any part of Skype anymore. They have totally backdoored it and I see no reason to reward then for that by attracting any users to the product.
I've been using the Venum Tox client ( tox.im ), which lacks the directory services in its early current state, but otherwise handles texts, voice and video (untested by me) and file transfer, completely encrypted, end-to-end, and directly p2p.
Ran across this little piece of info regarding skype and security considerations. Most may have seen it, some may have not. But skype seems to have made it into the list of information Snowden acquired. It certainly brings into question just what we all open ourselves up to when using closed source code:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/encrypted-or-not-skype-communication...
Opensouce is not immune, but at least you have the ability to check.
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