I'm not surprised.
As is well known, Microsoft deliberately removed the encryption from Skype, making it just another insecure platform for communicating and vulnerable to censorship.
As is well known, Microsoft deliberately removed the encryption from Skype, making it just another insecure platform for communicating and vulnerable to censorship.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encrypt...
Make up a new, random https URL. Something no one knows and no one would accidently hit. Message it to someone on Skype. Wait 5 minutes to see a bot from Microsoft hit your URL.
And another thing that worries me is if video chats between two Skype users do/can fall on the wrong hands. Could the video files be pushed to some of those porn websites out there as adult videos XXX????
> For instant messages, we use TLS (transport-level security) to encrypt your messages between your Skype client and the chat service in our cloud [...]
As expected, it's just network-level encryption, not end-to-end encryption.