[Web4lib] IM Security

[Leo Robert Klein]

Ilana Kingsley wrote:
> Here's a different view of IM Security....using AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Google, 
> etc. for chat is insecure in that
> 
> a) data are not encrypted....so you'll have the occasional student or 
> librarian who posts personal ID information (e.g., social security #, 
> Univ. ID #)
> 
> b) who owns the data? If you're chatting with Yahoo-- then does Yahoo 
> archive whatever is being transmitted?
> 
> It seems just safer to use Jabber, Rakim, or some other Chat software 
> installed on your own server.
> 

Can the people with AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. communicate with 
Jabber?  That for me would be the bottom line.

LEO

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