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A comment on Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook.

Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by esbafb8 on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:19PM (#16962460)
This is no joke. It reminds me of when Skype used to be secure then somehow a backdoor was introduced following (or before?) the acquisition by Microsoft. History repeats itself, and humans have yet to learn from the past.
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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by tptacek on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:37PM (#16962659)
In this case, strong E2E encryption was introduced after the acquisition (though presumably it had been in the works previously).
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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by esbafb8 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:30AM (#16966142)
OK! I was referring to this and it was before the acquisition indeed: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-Provided-Backdoor-Acce...
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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by zero_intp on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:40AM (#16966193)
Pardon my skepticism, but Microsoft has most definitely advertised to the TLAs that Skype communications are available for review.
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