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.
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