![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the *.dat files are in some undocumented binary format, and the only tool I found for reading those lacks in features. Indeed, there is a bunch of *.dat files in the chatsync subdirectory of the Skype's profile, which preserve all messages along with all their edits or deletions. I found that curious and decided to take a closer look. In addition, Dominique made a remark that Skype does not really delete the messages that are marked as "removed" in the chat window. It turns out, if you obtain a person's Skype profile directory, you will be able to log in as him without the need to know the password. Yesterday I happened to attend a discussion about the security and privacy of information stored locally in Skype and Thunderbird profiles. In other words - you would only recover "removed" messages if you are running older version of Skype (or these messages were sent at the time you were using that older version). ![]() Either these versions stopped saving removed messages altogether, or they are doing it in a novel manner not recognized by the tool. Update from year 2017: The tool described in this post DOES NOT WORK with recent versions of Skype. ![]()
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