Privacy Advocates Demand Transparency From Skype 95
tsamsoniw writes "Dozens of privacy advocates, Internet activists, and journalists have issued an open letter to Skype and Microsoft, calling on the companies to finally get around to being clear and transparent as to who has access to Skype user data and how that data is secured. 'Since Skype was acquired by Microsoft, both entities have refused to answer questions about exactly what kinds of user data can be intercepted, what user data is retained, or whether eavesdropping on Skype conversations may take place,' reads the letter, signed by such groups as the Digital Rights Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
forget that (Score:5, Insightful)
We need a skype alternative (Score:5, Insightful)
Time to create an open source skype alternative. We have the technology, knowhow and codecs necessary to make this happen.
Re:We need a skype alternative (Score:5, Insightful)
Honestly what we need is either a company that is openly hostile to the US government or, ironically, a company hosted in a government openly hostile to the US government to protect US citizen's privacy.
Fuck (Score:2, Insightful)
How about the "close application" button close the fucking application?
That would be a start.
Skype is almost malware.
Re:Just stop using Skype (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:We need a skype alternative (Score:0, Insightful)
Yay, another forward thinking network rollout, by people determined to avoid the inevitable. A lot of networking groups have their heads up their asses when it comes to IPV6.
Re:Just stop using Skype (Score:5, Insightful)
So what you're saying is you never need to talk to someone who uses Skype?
What is more reasonable; for me to ask them to install a second VoIP client that does not spy on them, or for them to ask me to install a second VoIP client that does spy on me?