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How secure is Skype?

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 202613154 views
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I use Skype at work though sometimes for personal use and I am worried anyone can sniff network packets and find out what I'm typing or maybe the network admin can read conversations on the port Skype uses. How secure is Skype? Can I make it safer by forcing SSL encryption, if so how would I do it …

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Skype's protocol is pretty secure by itself, it isn't intercepted and/or decrypted by regular packet sniffers. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#System_and_software Skype is a secure communication; encryption cannot be disabled, and is invisib…

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