https://tox.im/ for private person to person calls voice and video calls.

Any number of SIP packages with a carefully selected SIP provider for direct calls. CSipSimple for instance.
Jezus even Google Hangouts on Android and Iphone provided direct connect and video calls either free or cheaper than skype for calls to POTS.

How can you have been looking for "years" and not found any of these? Just how hard have you been looking AC?

Bullshit. You certainly haven't looked very far.

https://tox.im/
Android, Windows, IOS.
Voice, text, video.
Totally encrypted.

Tox does video and voice.
Totally encrypted.
Not backdoored like skype is.

Who cares.
The network is hopelessly backdoored. Most people use skype just to talk to family and friends, and moving all of that to one of several TOX clients, or even to Google Hangouts is smarter than handing the entire conversation over to Microsoft.

Uninstall Skype
Install any one a dozen open source package that do the same thing.

CDC has already apologized for blaming the victim.

So your failure to see them doing the original blaming, and your apparent failure to see the apology suggests you weren't paying attention.

Really? Huffington post is your bible? Seriously?

What about all the scrap metal missile parts that went through the port of Rotterdam? Did Huffington post knock that story down too?

Because when you start talking about that kind of amperage even the resistance of the cables becomes significant.
Look up cable requirements in the electrical code some time.

Put a hundred connectors in. Same problem.
Too many amps in too short of time.
Are you going to cover the entire rear end of the car with a 4 foot wide connector? How is that going to sell?

Do 4 or 6 plug-ins hanging from each car?
Don't see that happening any time soon.

Moving all of the energy that a 85 kW-hr lithium-ion EV battery can hold into a battery in 2 or 5 minutes would require some truly dangerous amperage,
and some enormous amount of heat could be generated.

I don't disagree that is what they should have done.

But I suppose they have to allow for some sites that don't support ssl/tls.
It seems very ham-handed, and easily detectable.

Still, Golden Frog should have Named and Shamed, instead of protecting the guilty.

I've run into hotels that wouldn't allow smtps or secure imaps connections over their wifi.
I checked out, and filled out the complaint form, and mailed to corporate headquarters. (I was pissed).
I've never stepped foot in that chain since.

Seems to me its more of a denial than an attack.

They want you to only connect outgoing SMTPS connections on 465. Golden Frog never even tested that, even after showing in a footnote that this was "possible" (their wording, I suspect they didn't want to admit it is the preferred way). Tempest Teapot.

This is a case of the client side trying to connect on port 25 then switch to SSL.

On the foot note of Page 8, they acknowledge that the proper way, and the way most modern clients do this, is to connect
to on port 465 with SMTPS, rather than on port 25, and then switch.

Golden Frog presented no evidence that they tried this same provider with a properly configured mail client.
So while it sounds all nasty, it may just be the carrier enforcing a better security method than connecting insecurely
and then changing mid-stream. Saves a lot of unnecessary double negotiations.

You opened the PDF but you clearly didn't read a single word of it.

Stop looking at the pictures. Its not a porn magazine.