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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by mwcmitchell on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:47PM (#16126564)
skype had this already before ms. ms opened skype up to government ages ago so this doesn't mean much of anything, there are backdoors. https://youtu.be/J1q4Ir2J8P8?t=2880
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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by devy on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:10PM (#16126776)
Yeah, I was gonna say Skype communication protocol was proprietary and encrypted until Microsoft bought them and rewrite a lot of it.
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