On Monday 06 February 2006 09:19, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime on Feb 5, DB cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > Meebo is effectively able to MITM your IM conversations. > > Teaching people who do not want to learn serves only to frustrate the > teacher. It is better to let them get burnt on their own. The burnt > child doesn't play with fire anymore.
calm down. its just IM. why do you even use the computer? Someone might steal your PC / Mac ;). For that matter if I compromise your ISP's servers then he/she can see everything that you are doing online! Not to mention DNS poisoning, IP spoofing, MAC spoofing. Oh wait did I mention rootkits? :O Even your regular IMs aren't safe. They pass all messages in clear text. The passwords are easy to crack lest they use SSL or some form of encryption. Remember, no encryption is safe from bruteforcing. Do you encrypt every IM message that you send / receive? Better unplug your PC and start using papers and pens. Oh wait but someone can just read that. Better use some encryption that too. Caeser cipher anyone? :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
