The people making these campaigns may actually be ignorant. When I was at Microsoft (long, long ago), there were portions of some source trees that were covered by security or NDAs and nobody except for the very few people signed on (and builders) could look at or know about them. For example, when Intel had a new chip, the specific developers and testers working on them would be under NDA and the tree secured so that only they could see the work on the code generators until they were released. And that's just for NDAs - I can't imagine what happens for the code or infrastructure support required for the NSA. The only reason I knew about the chip stuff is I owned the source trees in DevDiv for a while.
So, it's entirely possible that the _entire_ Skype team except for a dev, tester, "security coordinator," and one partner-level person were in the dark about this support and actually believed their marketing.
It's still a terrible situation, but it's not necessarily hypocracy/lying/nasty on the part of the people making up the campaigns.
So, it's entirely possible that the _entire_ Skype team except for a dev, tester, "security coordinator," and one partner-level person were in the dark about this support and actually believed their marketing.
It's still a terrible situation, but it's not necessarily hypocracy/lying/nasty on the part of the people making up the campaigns.