This is the part where I say "I told you so." The US has been trying to get this access for years, without success, because they weren't an american company. As soon as the MSFT buyout was announced, this is the exact result I'd said would happen. Now it has. This is why I stopped any real use of skype the day the purchase was approved.
Does jabber have a compatible voice or video protocol? I'm liking the vision of a mesh future with directly routed comms and end-to-end encryption.