Everyone here knows Skype, right? One of the most popular instant messengers, allowing for a single and group chatrooms as well as video and audio calls. It is thanks to Skype that, for example, a citizen of Canada can talk to his bud working in Israel. Well, it looks like Russians have heard of Skype too and are now working on their own. Rostec (darn, a name like that can do in a sci-fi movie. Just change this c into a k or ck and voila), a Russian technology company that works on the ”Russian Skype”, has already shared a bit of info on their project. Function-wise, their messenger will be pretty much same as Skype is. The main difference between the two is said to be the Russian one’s security. According to Rostec, their program is to be ”indirectly connected to the Internet” (huh?), which is said to drastically decrease a chance of any hacker intercepting calls.

When will we learn what exacly an indirect connection to the Internet is? Soon.