Skype network monitoring

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Can Skype chats be monitored/read by a internal network or sysadmin? Can I company store chats you make in skype and read them? I can't find a clear answer for this on the net. Also, are chat history files in skype encrypted/able to be read by someone without your skype login?

I hear skype is encrypted by default, and all chats and calls are protected, but I have heard people be told that "skype logs are kept and monitored" by their employer. Is this possible?

Best Answer

The initial problem of detecting Skype is in itself a rather difficult one.
Skype, is it right for you? has description and paper references to the problem.
Final notes from that link (which is a good read).

So, the final questions, is Skype Spyware?
In my opinion No. It does not contain spyware and never has.

Is Skype useful?
In my opinion Yes.

Is Skype beneficial to my environment?
Is it? That’s a determination that only you can make.
Do your clients sit behind NAT, Firewalls, and/or proxies?
Then they won’t be supernodes or Relay nodes. They are just clients.

Do you have a requirement to monitor all IM, file transfers, and/or voice calls?
If so, Skype is hard. It’s encrypted.

Once you figure out Skype is active, intercepting the traffic is a much more complicated problem.

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