[Phlarp]

"route everything through government surveillance" is perhaps a bit too blunt, but let's not forget that Microsoft was the founding member of the PRISM program.

And Prism or no Prism-- Skype was a $1bn present from Microsoft to the intelligence community. Even if they never snooped on anything (we know they have) they did re-engineer skype in a manner that allows it to be subject to more traditional CALEA trap and trace techniques, as well a numerous side channel attacks and traffic interception. The "secret sauce" of Skype in the very beginning was P2P connections, which MSFT immediately removed.

[Zekio]

Isn't skype still P2P?? otherwise why would it have an option to disallow P2P between you and people you don't know?

[pmlnr]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supe...