Re: [orca-list] working with skype

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

Oh I know, and if I don't want to die I'd better never step outside
because I'd get hit by a bus, therefore there's no point to even
waking in the morning. In fact there's just no point in doing anything
at all ever. We could stick to using Windows+JAWS too.

Apathy is amazing.

(and I'm horribly off-topic so this is my last message on this :)

-Mallory

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> I hate to break it to you, but if you are online at all, you are being monitored whether by your 
> government, a foreign entity, or simply your ISP. Unless you are sending everything, and I do mean 
> everything, over an anonymous and encrypted connection, you absolutely will be monitored and even then, you 
> can only control your end of the process. Example: your message now was just logged, as there are people on 
> this list with a Gmail address. Nothing you could have done would have prevented this save for encryption, 
> which would have made the message unreadable to the list. If you're that worried about it, you shouldn't be 
> on listservs, or any other public forum and you might as well take yourself offline. You will be logged by 
> at least one entity, friends/relatives will not stop using Skype (it's far more convenient than any SIP 
> provider for most users), and so you can either use Skype and be part of their online lives or go offline 
> in fear.
>
> On Jun 26, 2013, at 14:21, Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl> wrote:
>
> > Some of us know that every time we use Skype, we're being listened
> > to and recorded. You don't need to have anything to hide to not
> > like the NSA and Microsoft keeping records. 
> >
> > -mallory