Everyone will be wondering what the 8 characters are and the BBC fail to mention it, so here we go:<p>“<a href="http://:”" rel="nofollow">http://:”</a> (without the quotes) [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/these-8-characters-crash-skype-and-once-theyre-in-your-chat-history-the-app-cant-start/" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/these-8-characters-crash-s...</a>
I think they're filtering messages through their server now. Half an hour ago it worked, now it says "message removed". Implying they MITM our messages and can censor them.