I have heard many “safe” and “dangerous” stories about Skype. Being confused as to what I should believe in, I opened Google and understood two things right immediately. These are concerns about Skype:

1) Is your VoIP data secure with it;

2) Is all other data you own, secure, when Skype is installed at your device.

Considering the first, company is hardly trying to convince, that it is. Looking for the latter was a little trickier.

Recently a group of researchers at NYU Polytechnic Institute found out the fact - when you call a person on Skype, you can discover his/her IP address, even if the person doesn’t “pick the headset up”. There’s also a possibility to define which torrents are active at the target PC, and ability to track how one moves from point to point without any permission.

Up to now, providing your updated the previous Mac OS X exploited Skype, which allowed to remotely control your PC and network altogether, there are no more concerns about Skype as for now.