For those who, over the years, have wondered why I don't trust Skype ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Skype has declined to comment on an online report that alleges that Austrian 
officials have no problem listening in on Skype calls, which are encrypted as a 
standard part of Skype service. A Skype spokesman would not say whether Skype 
keeps keys to decrypt calls. It is virtually impossible to figure out for sure from 
independent research whether Skype keeps encryption keys or not, said the 
chairman of the Voice Over IP Security Alliance and senior director of security 
research at TippingPoint.  

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&tax
onomyName=security&articleId=9111661&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top  

(If you want to check out some of the formal research, try 
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~salman/skype/ )

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