Microsoft and Skype set to allow backdoor eavesdropping (memeburn.com)

I've still got the Linux client... I don't think they've updated it in ages. Does anyone know if that is also affected by this backdoor?

Am I the only on who thinks there were always backdoors in Skype? Also what is actually new in this story if venturebeat was writing about the patent in 2011?

An old patent years before they acquired Skype, one among thousands Microsoft files, doesn't mean that it has any plans of actually doing this.

Sigh, tech press.

Sorry, but I think I missed something here. First, this article is from last July. Second, it says that it's based on the US law named CALEA. The Wiki article on CALEA says that it covers all VoIP traffic. So.. what's the outrage? That Skype now functions the same way that, say, your VoIP phone service at home does? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just curious what I'm not seeing.

The article is from July 1st, 2011?