Safe Instant Messaging

[Brian Parma]

Same with Facebook's XMPP, which can be used in Pidgin.

An alternative is: https://crypto.cat/

Which is still in development but looks really promising.  You can even 
run your own server.

On 03/17/2013 12:33 AM, der.hans wrote:
> Am 16. Mar, 2013 schwätzte Nathan England so:
>
> moin moin,
>
>> My favorite IM is Google Talk, and I use the OTR on all my contacts. But
>> still, it's Google. I have given them access to some of my email. 
>> Access to
>> most of my whereabouts, though I often disable it. I don't know if I 
>> want them
>> to have all my chats as well. But like others have mentioned, I 
>> *assume* that
>> my connection to their server is encrypted, but the message is stored 
>> in plain
>> text and scanned for advertising or what ever and then sent on to the 
>> final
>> recipient, most likely in plain text.
>
> Well, if you're both using non-Google clients and OTR, Google shouldn't
> have access to the clear text.
>
> Also, if you use Jabber or other XMPP service, then you're not going
> through Google at all. The issue will be convincing people to use that
> other service and a client not from one of the big names that will track
> the conversation.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
>
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