"Researchers have discovered trick that allows encrypted VoIP calls like Skype to be deciphered without the need to crack encryption.
The method, dubbed "Phonotactic Reconstruction", exploited the Linear Predictive Filter, a system used by Voice over Internet Protocol platforms to transmit conversations by creating data sets from spoken English.
The researchers from the University of North Carolina said while you shouldn't ditch Skype, cryptographic system that leaked as much information as they managed to get are immediately deemed insecure.