Is it possible to protect yourself from "strange eyes" when using Skype?

Question

Skype

Skype has one feature: if you run the program on two computers at the same time and log in under the same user, then on each of the computers you can
a) see all the text correspondence that a person has on another computer
b) load the history of a conversation with any interlocutor for any period

. And the problem is that the first computer knows nothing about the copy of Skype running on the second computer . Because of this, any person who steals the password can, invisibly for the user, read his current correspondence, as well as view the history. Moreover, the history is not from the moment the current password was set, but the entire previous one. Plus, a thief can access Skype in stealth mode when the owner is asleep and download history from online users.

I have a few questions, so as not to produce topics:

1) are there ways to know that someone is viewing the current chat session besides you?
2) Are there ways to know that someone logged into Skype during your absence and downloaded the history of someone's conversations with you?
3) Are there ways to bypass these threats technically? (except for the radical one - do not communicate via Skype in text mode)

Answer 1

In a chat, you need to enter these commands:
/showplaces Displays a list of the currently online Skype instances using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions).
to see who is logged in
/remotelogout Logs out all other currently online Skype instances which are using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions).
to kill remote sessions.

Answer 2

There is only one technical way: set a password like 4? 3tIgA_AFFi * YlR60s7Q3Wpd and not a character less!
As an option: break the password into three parts, write down one part and store it on a piece of paper, the second part on an electronic medium, remember the third part ... :)
PS
And what Skype does not have the ability to erase the history of correspondence??

Answer 3

What is interesting is that even if you put “do not save history” in the settings, then within one session it is saved and synchronized with the rest of the included Skype. Idiot feature indeed. It would not be possible to make priorities and remote control from one account, as in Jabber, in order to disable other Skypes if necessary.

Answer 4

The only option that I know about defining another Skype is to exit Skype myself and call myself from another Skype, the call will go through even if the second Skype is in stealth mode, and if there is no one on the network, it will not work.

Answer 5

It seems like this feature is disabled through the Skype website, in the evening I can say more precisely

Answer 6

I do so.
When I try to conduct important correspondence and knowing that somewhere there is Skype left by me, I just change the password. Remote Skype seems to fall off in this case.
After that, you can calmly obschatstso.

Answer 7

You can try to use Skype4Pidgin with any encryption plugin (GPG/OTR)
The downside of this method is that both parties must have s4p installed

Answer 8

Now I found an option in the Skype settings, in Linux it is here: settings-> privacy tab-> store chat history ...
there you can choose how much to store it and whether
PS
set it for 3 months at all.

Answer 9

Moved the history of messengers and skype to a cryptocontainer. And the trouble with stealing the password, yeah. On the other hand, Skype is Skype for that, in order to transmit secrets by voice, and not by letter. Although here it is already necessary to check for bugs ...