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skype is encrypted and backdoored. how can you know the same isn't true of whatsapp?


People have verified that Skype is NOT secure[0]. Also Skype has not claimed to use end to end encryption.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/scorecard-update-we-ca...


Obfuscation would be a better term here. They've made it hard to reverse-engineer, but certainly not impossible.


Well, people were able to figure out skype was not secure without the source.




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