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| Information Security This Week (EU-IST) | ||
| Published | 05 March 2006 | |
| Editor | Urs. E. Gattiker | |
| ISSN | 1600-1869 | |
| Related Links |
Get the Gaim encryption plugin here Off-the-Record Messaging - another encryption plug-in for GAIM |
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| Public hotspot - using instant messaging (IM) securely while sitting at the coffee shop - B | ||
| GAIM runs on all the major operating systems, it's free, it's powerful, and, even better, it supports all the big IM networks. This means that you can use GAIM to talk to AIM users, MSN Messenger users, Yahoo! Messenger users, Google Talk users, and even more. | ||
| Best of all, it supports protected messaging through the Gaim-Encryption plugin: | ||
| Install that, and you can chat with other encrypted IM users, through whatever network you like, and the conversation will be secure. Other uses don't need to be using GAIM either, just a similar IM application that supports the same encryption. In a similar vein, Off-the-Record Messaging is another plugin for GAIM that will also encrypt IMs, no matter what network you're using. |
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| Regardless of which of the two plug-ins offered above you choose, your IM activities will be protected against snoopers and interloopers. | ||