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Skype is Spy Campaign

There are many reasons to avoid Skype. Among them:

Privacy

2017

  • How I Learned that Skype is a Spy Campaign (My Personal Story) -- by Yuval Levental


    • 2015

  • New NSA Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Skype is a Wiretapping Hub


    • 2014

  • Reader’s Article: Skype Spying Reaches New Levels of Blatant
  • Why Do FOSS Sites Promote NSA-Friendly Malware Like Microsoft Skype?
  • When NSA/PRISM/Microsoft Skype Turns Voice Conversations Into Text in Real Time
  • Skype Chief Executive Quits Microsoft Amid NSA Scandals
  • Microsoft Pays CBS (ZDNet/CNET) Which Calls Snowden a Traitor, ACLU Should Sue Microsoft Over Skype


    • 2013

  • Militarisation of Patent Battles: Militant Patents and Microsoft Spying (Skype, Kinect, Audio/Video Surveillance)
  • Microsoft Control Over Users
  • Skype Back Doors Confirmed, Allegedly Put in by Microsoft
  • Microsoft Surveillance of Over 100,000 Skype Accounts?
  • Microsoft Skype Gives Everyone’s Location, Enabling DDOS Attacks
  • Microsoft Skype Heavily Used for Surveillance by British Government/Secret Services
  • Microsoft Helps Oppress Populations for Profit (and Why Skype Should be Abandoned)
  • Microsoft’s Skype as a Universally-accessible Backdoor, Patent Infringement
  • Microsoft Skype Messaging Surveillance Not the Main Issue, Audio Recording (Bugging) and Computer Hijacking Are
  • Microsoft Spin Regarding Skype Spying Does Not Withstand Scrutiny
  • Skype Teaches Us That All Microsoft Software Should be Assumed Spyware Unless Proven Otherwise
  • With Xbox, Microsoft Helps Spy on Living Rooms, Not Just Personal Space Through Webcam/Microphone (Skype)
  • Glenn Greenwald Should Copy Snowden’s Leak for Wikileaks to Publish in Full in Order to Counter Denials of Microsoft et al. (Updated)
  • Microsoft’s Very Latest Ways of Spying on People Far Worse Than Google’s and Facebook’s
  • Microsoft Was Lying About Skype, It’s More or Less an NSA Honeypot
  • Project Chess Teaches Us That the Government is Indeed Listening to Skype Calls
  • Privacy Crimes of Microsoft Confirmed: Microsoft Colluded With the NSA in Criminal Surveillance (Illegal, Unconstitutional Program)
  • Techrights Was Right About Skype All Along
  • New ACLU Campaign Warns Against Use of Microsoft’s Skype (Audio/Video/Text Surveillance)


    • 2012

  • Microsoft is Breaking the Law by Giving Skype Data to Private Firms, Getting People’s Data (e.g. Web History) Through Facebook
  • New Reports Confirm That Microsoft Skype is Spying on Users, Sharing Personal Data
  • Skype in Microsoft’s Hands Gives NSA Access to International Phonecalls
  • The Skype Interception Campaign


    • 2011

  • Microsoft is Listening to Everyone
  • All Your Communications Belong to Microsoft
  • When Microsoft Tracks Identities and Conversations


    • Software Freedom

  • When Mono Gets Treated Similarly to Skype (Proprietary)
  • Canonical Adds Skype (Proprietary Software) to the Ubuntu Repository (Corrected)
  • Microsoft Skype Takes Over Machines Without Users’ Knowledge


    • Competition

  • Nokia Crushed by Microsoft While Windows Mobile Dies. Is Skype Next?
  • What the Skype Takeover Means for Microsoft Patents (and Other Software Patents News)
  • Debt-saddled Microsoft Wastes Money on Skype While the Staff is Leaving
  • Microsoft’s CEO More Likely to Leave After His Disastrous Skype Move
  • Microsoft Skype is Collapsing While Ballmer is Pressured to Resign and More People Flee
  • TechBytes Episode 45: Skype, Facebook, and Weekly Musings
  • A Call to Boycott Skype


    • Interoperability

  • European Commission Should Also Fine Microsoft for Using Skype to Further Harm Interoperability
  • Microsoft Skype Fights Benevolent API Hacking


    • Technical

  • Microsoft Makes Skype More User-hostile and Buggy
  • Proprietary Software + Windows = VoIP System Down for Everyone
  • Skype Cracked, All User Accounts Are Vulnerable