Heh, so if I start a website of my own, with pretty pictures and colours, will you give me your IM passwords as well?
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?
By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to come up with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy.
On 05/02/06 00:39 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
Heh, so if I start a website of my own, with pretty pictures and colours, will you give me your IM passwords as well?
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.
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.
Devdas Bhagat
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.
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? :)
Sometime Today, DJ cobbled together some glyphs to say:
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
This I disagree with. I know how authentication is done with MSN, AOL, Yahoo! and Jabber instant messengers. Do you?
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
I have no intention of hiding my data. I'm interested in protecting my identity. There's a difference. Understand it.
Philip
On Monday 06 February 2006 17:04, Philip Tellis wrote:
I have no intention of hiding my data. I'm interested in protecting my identity. There's a difference. Understand it.
right. identity theft - the latest rave :)
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