>How far does this go? Do people need to worry about microsoft IIS web servers with SSL, exchange servers? You do have to wonder if apple backdoored their IM client, below the OTR, or silent circle, or the OS - I mean how far does this go? Jon Callas said not apple, that wouldnt be cool, and apple aims for coolness for users; maybe he should dig a little more.

What? Why bring Apple into this?

>Now are they just hoovering up the skype IMs via the new microsoft central server architecture having back doored skype client to no longer have end2end encrption (and feedind them through echelon or whatever) or is this the client that is reading your IMs and sending selected things to the mothership.

Skype claims the changes were unrelated, not sure if believable but they have some details on them here.

http://blogs.skype.com/2012/07/26/what-does-skypes-architect...

More interesting details here. http://www.zdnet.com/no-microsoft-and-skype-are-not-playing-...

>btw their HEAD request was completely ineffective per the weak excuse microsoft offered in the article at top my php contained a meta-refresh which the head wont see as its in the html body

Yes, but if the links are spreading fast, you can expect more scrutiny. I think they're trying avoid situations like the below.

"New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502028

Interesting comments on that article, including someone calling for Ballmer to be jailed because he allows malware links on Skype. How can they detect and stop malware with OTR?