Those responsible for Skype denied on Friday that made changes in the terms of service for voice over IP to allow clips of calls between its users. According to reports published this week, the change would be a requirement for governments of different countries and serve to assist the police in investigations confidential.
The charges arose after the company was bought by the giant Microsoft, which recently filed a patent for the surveillance of conversations in voice over IP programs. In addition, Skype would have secretly changed its terms of use, and migrated to a system supernodos, which would facilitate access to conversations.
However, Skype's chief development officer, Mark Gillett, said the allegations are "false." "The move to the super was not made to facilitate access to communications of our users and not to cooperate with the authorities," said a post on his blog .
According to Gillett, the super help the stability of the Skype network, allowing people to be located on the servers of the tool and a connection with another contact is established.
To better understand the case, read the charges against Skype and Microsoft this week.
