Brian Morrison wrote:
On Fri, 27 May 2011 01:49:14 -0500
"Leo Rosenstein" <[email protected]> wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible for pidgin chats to be monitored or
"seen" by another system while they are taking place? In otherwords
can pidgin chats be "eavesdropped" ??
Yes, they can be because the data is being passed between participants
by a server that is under 3rd party control.
But this applies to any client for the service, not just to Pidgin.
The level of protection is likely to vary from service to service, but
all of them are vulnerable to a dishonest service operator. Some may
even profile your messages to target advertising.
If you want plausible deniability one way of achieving that is using
Off The Record (OTR). Have a look at http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr for
more information.
--
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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