How Secure Is Your Favorite Messaging App? EFF Aims To Find Out

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EFF, together with Julia Angwin at ProPublica and Joseph Bonneau at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, researched which of the many chat applications available today are truly secure, and gave each a score of 1-7 points.

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[Christopher1]

Changing Skype to a centralized infrastructure did make it easier to wiretap and the "This will improve battery life for mobiles!" thing was a LoC.
I believe that Microsoft was either threatened by the feds or given a big payout to centralize their infrastructure and make it easier to wiretap Skype calls.

 

[dovah-chan]

Proud user of TextSecure.