See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security My understanding was that some global intelligence organisations ca

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security My understanding was that some global intelligence organisations can request decryption and that China is doing this actively [see above link]. I also recall reading some time ago that organisations that work exclusively with skype to provide some add-ons can be given access to decrypt. Further, there was also that techcrunch article - http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/08/skypes-innermost-security-layers-claimed-to-be-reverse-engineered/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/08/skypes-innermost-security-l... - which spoke about this