Interview with Skype's Niklas Zennstrom on privacy, security [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Skype's VoIP ambitions
December 2, 2003, 1:30 PM PST
By Declan McCullagh

Niklas Zennstrom may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur.

The 37-year-old Stockholm resident co-authored the legendary software used 
in the Kazaa file-sharing network. After he and his partners sold the 
rights to Kazaa last year, Zennstrom turned his attention to Joltid, which 
sells a caching technology to help network providers deal with the growing 
amount of peer-to-peer traffic.

Now Zennstrom and Kazaa co-creator Janus Friis have launched their most 
ambitious effort so far: Skype, a start-up that hopes to convince people to 
use voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology instead of the 
traditional phone system.

CNET News.com recently spoke to Zennstrom, Skype's chief executive, in 
Stockholm about VoIP, privacy, security, and the lessons he's learned from 
his other start-ups.

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