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Old 29-06-05, 03:12 PM   #6
TankGirl
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Originally Posted by Dream Catcher
speaking of private networking... comparable to waste...cant skype be considered?
While Skype is an excellent p2p-based telephony application it is not a virtual private network and can't be considered a secure environment in the same sense a WASTE mesh is. Skype's identity and key management are centralized, and the software is closed source, so basically the bad guys could be listening to your private discussions and you would never know.

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