[brl]

Yes, I may be overestimating the reaction that people would have but it's not so much about privacy as abusing the trust of their users. I think most people would consider it pretty dishonest for Skype to place backdoors in their client application so that intelligence agencies can spy on their conversations.

It's more intentionally malicious to distribute software with a backdoor than to do what AT&T did so I really think it would upset people more.

Remember the Sony 'rootkit' fiasco? And that wasn't even really harmful, just annoying.