yes, Venty, everyone wants to know what you talk about in your private communications.

don't be silly, just use it as any other public communication platform, be it Gmail or internet forums. If you need to transport sensitive data, use secure channels for it. If you need to communicate to few hundred of your contacts, there's not much alternative, because most of them use skype anyway.

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From: Martin Ebnoether ventilator@semmel.ch

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Skype is like MSN Messenger, just another ugly overloaded communication tool. if I have to choose between skype and MSN, it's MSN, because there are a lot of opensource and freeware alternatives to the bad Live Messenger from Microschrott, ah Microsoft... :-)

Well, it might be ugly, but at least it works in almost every situation.

If it would not, they could not sniff into other peoples private communications.