Open Source and Free Software

closed up that hole after buying skype; that was the plan. I remember having access to skype users several years ago before the buyout.

I'll stand corrected if someone has a different answer to this. I'm not up on skype closed source protocol but you would probably have to fake or hack a way in. Maybe someone knows if skype can be setup in wine or a virtual box of windows on a Linux box. Open source directly on Windows is probably guarded or locked out. That's how they play you know.

The only possibility I know of to get away from NSA and the like is on a UNIX based system using proxy servers and a rather high encryption method.

Even if you can use skype with open source software on Windows you would have no privacy from data scraping.