It may be, NSA-backdoor is a precondition for having Skype. Isn't it part of the reasons why Microsoft bought the Skype in the first place (and Nokia phones)? (I think it is.)

Would be good, if the world finally would to start migrating from Skype to open standard based VOIP protocols, which would be encrypted also (ZRTP). If even Jolla gives in, there is no hope.

Start promoting your friends to use open SIP based phones. Then we even have a chance to get strongly encrypted VOIP-calls in some day.
http://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/