Criminals are taking advantage ofSkype's 256-bit encryption and the
internet's unpredictable routing scheme to set up drug deals and
other crimes, say Swiss law enforcement officials.
According to swissinfo, a Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
company,
local police are investigating dozens of drug-related cases
where Skype has been the medium of communication between gang
members and client.
"Criminals know that the police have difficulties monitoring
Skype," it quotes a Zurich prosecutor of drugs and organised crime,
Christoph Winkler, as saying.
According to Bernhard Weder, head of a Swiss federal working
group that is researching how to monitor internet phone calls,
Skype is "extremely cleverly built", it said.
Weder believes Skype can decode calls, but said the firm has not
been co-operative, a charge the company's PR agency denied.