Quoting Nate Carlson (natecars at real-time.com): > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Neal wrote: > > I suggest that we abandon IRC for a more secure method for > > collaboration. We could use either AOL or MSN Messenger, or ICQ. > > "more secure"?! > > have you ever run a packet sniffer on a network with people using aol, > msn, or icq? > > you can read their messages just as easily as irc.. > > iirc, AOL actually sells a gateway product for corporations that sniffs > and logs everyone's AIM traffic now, too.. Using gabber, you can encrypt your transmissions with gnupg. I believe there is something similar in xchat. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 http://www.linuxjustworks.com | Linux Just Works! Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288