On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Mark Seiden <[email protected]> wrote:
> any mechanism to do this (that i could think of, anyway) presents a possible 
> risk to
> those communicants who want no attributable state saved about their 
> communication.
> either these are privacy freaks (not intended pejoratively:  for whatever 
> reason, they're
> entitled to be…) …  or criminals.

Corporations are privacy freaks.  I've worked or consulted for a
number of corporations that were/are extremely concerned about data
exfiltration.

I'd not advise such corporations to use Skype without an agreement
with Skype as to what can/does happen to the their data, or else to be
very careful about what is exchanged over Skype.  And it does happen
that sometimes a corporation's employees need to communicate with
people over Skype or similar *external* systems.

Beyond corporations, individuals absolutely have a right to private
communications with their lawyers, etc...  And there need not be any
criminal or civil liability for an individual to hide.  For example,
if I were trying to patent something, I'd want my communications with
my lawyer kept secret.

Nico
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