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Re: survey of instant messaging privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ioannidis)
Mon Jun 9 20:36:11 2008
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:19:45 -0400
From: John Ioannidis <ji@tla.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87tzg2rwsb.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Also from Declan McCullagh today, a full survey of instant message
> service security:
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9962106-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheIconoclast
>
Interesting. Of course, with the possible exception of Skype, only the
over-the-network part of the communication is protected. The IM
providers can still give the contents of your communications to third
parties.
As OTR has shown, it's not hard to do end-to-end crypto even if you
don't have direct client connectivity. Makes one wonder why the default
clients don't have the functionality :)
/ji, Pidgin user
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