I think they just made video-conferencing calls a premium product, but they tossed in full NSA access to your "encrypted" calls for free. Person-to-person video calls from one skype client to another should still be free (and also includes full NSA access, no charge).
I use skype for one business client, and for everything else we use Google hangouts, as horrible as it is.
Sigh, I hate it when a tangent is thrown in such as NSA...
Sure we have the technology to store information, but it is relatively useless and cannot be used against you, not even if a warrant is out to back use that information, because it cannot be used against you due to due process.
The only way any wiretapping is useful, is if there is a court order on a person before hand, thus any after that would be fine for gathering prosecutable evidence - but that would fall in the lines of "Are you doing something wrong (criminal) to begin with anyways?".
Anything that could be of political slander, is not even an issue at all - because that isn't due process period or criminal. It is a right to an opinion, expressed through a medium. Unless one is ACTIVELY ACTING on such actions, in such a destructive manner (burning the house that covers you) then it is not a problem.
If you are worrying about that, worry about your typical cell phone or land line calls as well.
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