Sorry, but I think I missed something here. First, this article is from last July. Second, it says that it's based on the US law named CALEA. The Wiki article on CALEA says that it covers all VoIP traffic. So.. what's the outrage? That Skype now functions the same way that, say, your VoIP phone service at home does? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just curious what I'm not seeing.
Am I the only on who thinks there were always backdoors in Skype? Also what is actually new in this story if venturebeat was writing about the patent in 2011?
An old patent years before they acquired Skype, one among thousands Microsoft files, doesn't mean that it has <i>any</i> plans of actually doing this.<p>Sigh, tech press.