Skype is notorious for blocking Tor.  That means I would need to to interpose a VPN between Tor and Skype.  The hops I use to reach bitcointalk.org are already too laggy for smooth realtime video feeds.  Adding another would turn it from “ugh” to “wtf”.  It’s unlikely that video and speech would even be intelligible, let alone sufficiently clear for me to assess and attest what I’d need to here.

Any other ideas?

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YHBT, HAND.  (Or a different version of:  Dear suchmoon...)

That said:  All along, I have been sincerely interested in finding exculpatory (as well as inculpatory) evidence here.  I’m curious to see whether Alia can cough up something better than “the other Dave” and “Skype through Tor, lol”.  How far can this go?

(N.b. on the point of video interview, Lauda was right:  I am not a disinterested party, given how this case affects me.  Even those who fully trust my basic honesty may reasonably question whether I might be susceptible to some tiny sliver of wishful thinking, which could be cloud my judgment sufficiently to be exploited by a scammer.  An interview conducted by me would thus hold little weight with anybody other than me, no matter how honest and skilled I actually would be in conducting it.)