Comment by reirob

Absolutely agree! It's even more true for closed source software like Skype - to be able to prevent it from accessing to data it doesn't have to.

I know there are many alternatives to Skype, but there are people that have to use it from time to time for professional reasons.

I started doing this for Skype on Ubuntu 14.04 - but have to admit that I quickly ran out of steam. Need to pick up where I ended.