Is Skype Phone Secure?
One the questions which most of my friends ask is whether skype is secure. Skype states in most of the Technical Magazines or Journals that they use trusted high 256 BIT AES encryption strength to encrypt the conversations and they also use their own protocol which is proprietary of skype. However, Skype may be set up so as to be able to disclose call recordings if forced by law to do so, for example perhaps suspected communications between terrorists .
The consensus seems to be that skype is generally a lot more secure than other phone lines available, especially mobile phones, as the recent and high publicity News of the World hacking scandal has clearly shown, and that MIM Attackers would find it impossible to decipher a conversation and encryption cannot be disabled.