On Monday 06 February 2006 5:09 pm, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > >> I think Philip is raving mad! What prompted you to think that > >> only meebo and not Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft will be having > >> our IM passwords and sneaking into our privacy? > > > > To be able to authenticate to Yahoo!, you need to know a username > > and password from that service. You are not supposed to share > > that with anyone else. > > Meebo is effectively able to MITM your IM conversations. > > But thats not the point. Yahoo! may very well read every e-mail IM > that I have ever sent. Who told you that the Yahoo! guys ae > absolute saints not prone to mischief. Its a matter of trust. If > you trust Yahoo!, very well, go forward and use its services. If > you trust meebo then go ahead. If you do not then, very well again. > But do not spread your mistrust, until you have very sound reasons > to back your claims. > > Can you prove how Yahoo! is more trustable than meebo? > > >> By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to > >> come up with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy. > > > > There is always Jabber. Plus, if you _do_ need IM from work, you > > should be able to get a hole poked in the proxy. Alternatively, > > you could always telecommute, or even get another job. > > Hahaha my dear friend, you have got it all wrong. I do not do a > job, I study in an university where every other Windows IM client > works. Yahoo! MEssenger, Google Talk, Rediff Bol, etc.. Therefore > the university has no policy to block IM. But not a single UNIX > based client works. Not even Gaim, Kopete, Yahoo! Messenger for > UNIX. Needless to say that I have tried using Jabber on Gaim. The > simple reason being that the Windows clients piggyback the IM > packets on HTTP packets and use port 80 for their job, while the > UNIX based ones do not. Hence the problem. > > Those who have attended Mark's talk on making GNU/Linux more > desktop friendly, we have to work out solutions that work on > Windoze and GNU/Linux equally well.
Eh! I do not remember him saying anything like that. In fact what he said was forget about the windows user and focus on those who do not have a comp - they are the ones with potential. > So do not talk about stuff that > require obscure hacking to make them work. I do not have any > problem with them, but laymen do have problems doing so! That is why u have admins. > > For your kind information a lot of UNIX based utilities like CVS > are very difficult to get to work from behind a proxy (in my case > SQUID)! Anything and everything is difficult to get working behind a proxy if u follow proper security procedures and if u have clueless admins. And btw my cvs downloads work perfectly behind a proxy if that is what u are referring to. > I expect an answer to my poblems... Your pompous attitude is disgusting. If u so desperately want answers to your POBLEMS find them yourself or hire / cajole / beg someone to find them. If u find poblems between windows and linux interworking sit down and write code / decode the protocols and pray u dont get shafted by M$ lawyers. U are as clueless as they come. -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
