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Skype didn't have unbreakable privacy as a main concern, this comment is not very fair

The problem is, there's little market for "unbreakable privacy" and that market is already taken by Signal, Threema, etc.. - however since Skype turned to shit there's been a huge market for an easy to use and ubiquitous chat solution. For now the only thing that comes close to that is iMessage but it's Mac-only.

Facebook has video chat and lots of nontechnical people get how to use it. Google has had one for a while but the name keeps changing and they'll likely kill off whatever the latest one is in a year (and it probably works better on android somehow)

Sucks that we can't just revive the design of classic Skype (but open source) before MS ruined it (not that it didn't have wiretapping capabilities before as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security ). I guess the linked project is the closest thing to that.

was wondering the same thing, i.e. signal might be doing it already for most users?

I think it's extremely fair. "Unbreakable privacy" doesn't much matter if no one wants to use the system.

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