Skype is Spy Campaign
From Techrights
There are many reasons to avoid Skype. Among them:
Privacy
- 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
- Microsoft is Listening to Everyone
- All Your Communications Belong to Microsoft
- When Microsoft Tracks Identities and Conversations
- Skype in Microsoft’s Hands Gives NSA Access to International Phonecalls
- The Skype Interception Campaign
- 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
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
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