If you can tolerate the fuzzy transmissions and somewhat erratic service, you may really like Skype for business. After all, they say, your messages are “encrypted” and “secure”.
But not really.
Obviously there are powers at work who wish to monitor and, if necessary, suppress dissent and take any good ideas they can for their own profit. To do so they will eavesdrop at whatever expense it takes and even big companies like Yahoo and Google will play ball with them to have access to their markets.
If you don’t want the wrong person to hear, you still need to whisper in their ear!
Here are the relevant posts you need to be aware of:
Surveillance of Skype Messages in China Documented in New Report UPDATED
and
Peter Parkes (Skype Blogger) on November 12th, 2008 at 3:16 am
The issues described in the posts you link to above affect only the TOM-Skype software distributed by TOM in China.
Conversations between people using standard versions of Skype are, and always have been, completely secure and private.