content: Doesn't mean you should bash the article.  No fucking shit. This was obvious when Microsoft bought Skype (reportedly overpaying to land the acquisition) and then stripped out the P2P architecture so that all communications went through a private server that MSFT had the keys to.  What the fuck else were they doing it for? It was obvious years ago, and tech nerds have been warning people for a long time now. Don't you remember, all of those tech nerds were yelling and saying "Oh look, skype is going to be backdoored by microsoft now for the NSA" and everyone told them to take off their tin foil hats and shut the fuck up? lol.