Comments on: Even Politicians Want to Use Skype

By: Chaim Haas

Chaim Haas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:42:33 +0000

Staci Pies, Skype’s Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs, just posted something to the company’s blog on this topic. You can read her comments at http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/07/skype_opening_up_the_dialogue.html.

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:56:35 +0000

Totally insecure, my left elbow. If Skype is so secure that the German Bundeskriminalamt needs to circumvent it by physically installing keyloggers to crooks' computers, it is darn well secure enough...

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:15:50 +0000

@Stephen: Any chance you can back up your claims that it's totally insecure?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:41:56 +0000

I see a lot wrong with it as it is based on P2P and is totally insecure! I will add I work in the Video Conferencing business. Skype is great for personal use, not business or this!

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:35:24 +0000

It is free -- and there is nothing wrong with that ;-)

By: Elizabeth Coker

Elizabeth Coker — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:20:40 +0000

I suspect Skype's privacy policies may be the issue. It's free, but it's likely not going to pass congressional privacy compliance policies. Perhaps Congress is not too keen on that level of transparency. And does Skype really want to respond to all those Freedom of Information requests? Seems practical, however, for all but the military and HLS conferences. Just one citizen's thoughts...

By: Sanjay Maharaj

Sanjay Maharaj — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:08:52 +0000

Makes perfect sense, Skype is efficient to use and cost effective.

By: Sanjay Jain

Sanjay Jain — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:03:00 +0000

Good to see that technology makes everybody's life easy! We should encourage to use inexpensive technologies in our daily life.