My good friend Jason Fischl (who coincidentally used to be my old boss for while) just joined the Skype team down in the Bay Area as the Director of Developer Relations. I think it’s a great role, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Skype continues to do in the future now that Jason is involved. Congrats Jason. ...

This next post hits pretty close to home. I work in the field of voice over IP. I write software for my day job that allows people to talk to each other using two computers. A popular manifestation of the technology I work with everyday is Skype, which many people use to communicate with each other. One of the benefits of Skype is that the entire conversation is automatically encrypted. In theory, this should mean that nobody, not even the government, would be able to listen in on your phone calls. However, a recent article speculates that there may be a backdoor in Skype that would allow governments ...