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On Thursday 12 April 2007, r0tt3n wrote:

> On Apr 11, 10:09 pm, "Joope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm needing to know will google chat leave a trail or messages that
> > the IT's at my company can read?  We have an instant messenger on our
> > computers at work and they can read that.  So I'm wondering if this is
> > different then the instant messenger at my job.  Thanks for all your
> > help!
>
> The short answer is yes.  The long answer is for now, definitely, but
> they might not be able to for long.  If you manage to locate the
> google talk suggestions and feedback page, it asks you to choose 5 out
> of about 15 frequent feature requests.  One of them is instant message
> and voice call encryption.  Without encryption, the messages could be
> read by anyone with access to the traffic, as it the case now with
> your company's local network.

Doesn't Google already support SSL on client-to-server and server-to-server 
connections?  If so, just make sure you're using an SSL-enabled client and 
it's encrypted client-to-server.  If the person you're contacting is on 
another Jabber server and their server is SSL aware, the server-to-server 
connection should be encrypted as well.

Then there's Psi and others, which works with Google Talk and uses industry 
standard OpenPGP for total end-to-end encryption.

-- 
Paul Johnson
Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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