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adding a little. Also, I don't think we need that TAR stuff either.
In January 2011 after releasing video calling on the Skype client for [[iPhone]], Skype attained a world record 27 million simultaneous online users.<ref name="engadget2">{{cite web | url=http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/skype-hits-new-record-of-27-million-simultaneous-users-in-wake-o/ | title=Skype Hits New Record of 27 Million Simultaneous Users | accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> and by 21 January 2013, Skype had more than 50 million concurrent users online.<ref name="50milusers">{{cite web | url=http://skypenumerology.blogspot.se/2013/01/50-million-concurrent-users-online.html | title=50 million concurrent users online | accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref>
In January 2011 after releasing video calling on the Skype client for [[iPhone]], Skype attained a world record 27 million simultaneous online users.<ref name="engadget2">{{cite web | url=http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/skype-hits-new-record-of-27-million-simultaneous-users-in-wake-o/ | title=Skype Hits New Record of 27 Million Simultaneous Users | accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> and by 21 January 2013, Skype had more than 50 million concurrent users online.<ref name="50milusers">{{cite web | url=http://skypenumerology.blogspot.se/2013/01/50-million-concurrent-users-online.html | title=50 million concurrent users online | accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref>
==Services==
Sykpe offers a variety of services. These include free video calling for private use, Skype-to-phone calls (for a fee), and commercial solutions including Lync and Skype for Business. These latter commercial options include conference call hosting.
== Security and Privacy of Skype ==
== Security and Privacy of Skype ==
Kurt Sauer, Skype's Chief Security Officer in an interview, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not."<ref>{{cite web|author=ZDNet.de |url=http://www.zdnet.de/mobiles_internet_drahtloses_arbeiten_telefonieren_uebers_internet_wie_sicher_ist_skype_wirklich_story-39001620-39151472-1.htm |title=Telefonieren übers Internet: Wie sicher ist Skype wirklich? – Telekommunikation | Mobile Business |publisher=ZDNet.de |date=|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> This didn't deny the fact revealed by [[Edward Snowden]] in June 2013 that the [[NSA]] [[mass surveillance|monitors]] Skype conversations both international and domestic. The Skype software uses a non-[[Open source]] proprietary protocol. The [[Free Software Foundation]] (FSF) is worried about [[privacy]] issues caused by proprietary software and protocols, thus they have made the development of a secure Skype replacement alternative one of their projects of high priority.<ref>"[http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#skypereplacement FSF High Priority Projects]", [[Free Software Foundation]]. Accessed December 8, 2014.</ref>
Kurt Sauer, Skype's Chief Security Officer in an interview, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not."<ref>{{cite web|author=ZDNet.de |url=http://www.zdnet.de/mobiles_internet_drahtloses_arbeiten_telefonieren_uebers_internet_wie_sicher_ist_skype_wirklich_story-39001620-39151472-1.htm |title=Telefonieren übers Internet: Wie sicher ist Skype wirklich? – Telekommunikation | Mobile Business |publisher=ZDNet.de |date=|accessdate=December 8, 2014}}</ref> This didn't deny the fact revealed by [[Edward Snowden]] in June 2013 that the [[NSA]] [[mass surveillance|monitors]] Skype conversations both international and domestic. The Skype software uses a non-[[Open source]] proprietary protocol. The [[Free Software Foundation]] (FSF) is worried about [[privacy]] issues caused by proprietary software and protocols, thus they have made the development of a secure Skype replacement alternative one of their projects of high priority.<ref>"[http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#skypereplacement FSF High Priority Projects]", [[Free Software Foundation]]. Accessed December 8, 2014.</ref>
==Prescient Quotes on Police State Telephone and voIP Surveillance==
<!--==Prescient Quotes on Police State Telephone and voIP Surveillance==
* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from [[hard disk|secret drawers]], can reproduce them in [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|court]], and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the [[computer science|psychic and related sciences]] may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every [[citizen|man]] in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser [[tyranny|intrusions]] than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no [[Right to Privacy|protection]] against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from [[hard disk|secret drawers]], can reproduce them in [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|court]], and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the [[computer science|psychic and related sciences]] may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every [[citizen|man]] in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser [[tyranny|intrusions]] than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no [[Right to Privacy|protection]] against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
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==See also==
==See also==