On 05/15/2013 09:55 AM, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> To my knowledge skype does not use their servers to send the voice 
> data (this is what I was told may be wrong). So thought it is the same 
> for text also.

If you care about eavesdropping at all, use otr.  Pidgin has a plugin 
that supports it

$ sudo yum info pidgin-otr
Installed Packages
Name        : pidgin-otr
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.2.1
Release     : 2.fc18
Size        : 276 k
Repo        : installed
 From repo   : fedora
Summary     : Off-The-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin
URL         : http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
License     : GPLv2
Description : This is a Pidgin plugin which implements Off-the-Record (OTR)
             : Messaging. It is known to work (at least) under the Linux and
             : Windows versions of Pidgin.

Rahul
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