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Tin Foil Hat Time: Skype Outage Due To US Government Wire Tapping?!

Posted in Stupid by Dan at 4:02 pm
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I love when conspiracy theories just manage to slither their way around the internet.

The Skype network has been a concern of government intelligence agencies since its inception because it provides a worldwide network of encrypted VoIP calls to potential “terrorists”. So how coincidental is it that 10 days after Bush signs into law a Bill giving the government authority to track foreign calls that go through U.S. networks that Skype, for the first time in its existence, undergoes a massive worldwide outage?

Are you kidding me, wire tapping caused the great Skype crash of ‘07, why didn’t you just say it was mythical little unicorns? I know people find it hard to believe to believe patch Tuesday caused the meltdown, but a secret NSA program – not sure if I buy it.

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