The decision to move to the cloud form of networking was recently announced by Skype on their official network. This is surely not being looked as one of the legendary moves by Apple being done on Skype. The centralization of the whole network will be more reliable if they get handled centrally however the centralization of the whole software should not be reducing the privacy of the user.

Skype has never been able to provide a solitude answer about the privacy of the user. They have never discussed about the company policies on the data encryption. There is very little information available on their style and flow of work. Taping the conversation will get easier with the data centralization however still a concrete reason is missing behind their move. Why the company is rolling such changes? In a report published in the newspaper “The Guardian”, it was mentioned that now NSA has gained a higher ability to collect data from the Skype. This only happened after few months of the acquisition of the Skype by Microsoft and the whistle about the important report was blown by Edward Snowden Way back in 2003 when the internet used to be very expensive and was thinly available, the founders and co founder of the Skype relied upon the technology of peer-to-peer (P2P).

It allowed the users log into the system and made the copy of the user’s software share some of the load. When Skype was built, a good and very efficient algorithm for the data compression with the tolerance packets for dropping network latency was used. Skype was built with the thought of end to end encryption for the users. Skype never spoke about such details and only revealed some partial sketchy details about it.

Microsoft has spoken over the concerns over privacy and revealed that no changes or threats will be applicable on the privacy of the user.