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[rokytnji]

I don't skype with my family anymore. I told them to install JITSI if they wanted to talk with me online.

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/cor...base/jitsi

https://jitsi.org/

They have Mac and Windows packages so it was not hard to convert them.

[N4RPS]

Hello!

Nice that it's open source AND encrypted, too.

The encryption will keep out virtually everyone else, but if they want to, the NSA WILL hear you - no matter WHAT you do. They snoop on every American's email, your web activity, and all your phone calls. (Not paranoid. Just perceptive.)

I would imagine that super-strong encryption sends up a 'red flag' to them. They'll just devote more of the cryptanalytic power of a huge building filled with Cray supercomputers your way...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[ukbrian]

You've gotta laugh at yourself sometimes.
I remember when skype were celabrating having 200,000 uses on line at the same time now it's 60 odd million.

I started easing off using it when ebay bought it and my registration lapsed so when an old friend who wrote a bespoke office app for me in the 90's asked to talk again on skype I had to reregister.

He lives/works in the windows world but he's been getting into html5 so I want to see what he's been upto.