Secure Your Chat

Are you aware that everything you type in Messenger, AIM, Yahoo, or ICQ is unencrypted? All that chat can (and is) read by anyone. As your conversation flies around the internet, the ebb and flow means Microsoft, governments, your ISP, and companies all see, track, parse and record it.

Well I had a problem. I'm currently exploring the possibilities of a commercial venture. The people I needed to talk to are all on Messenger but I needed it to be secure. I needed my privacy.

After some research I found this: http://www.secway.fr/products/simplite_msn/download.php?PARAM=us,ie versions work with all chat programs I've listed and Trillian.

It is unbelievably simple to use. You do not need to register it and it's completely free for private use. Install, skip the registration, create your own personal master key, restart Messenger. You're done.

Whenever you chat with someone, if they have the program running you'll exchange key information and form a secure link and be told the link is secure. I've also analysed its data traffic and checked its authenticity; it works. There are no lies here.

Double-click on the pink icon and you'll see you're connected securely in your current chat session with someone (or not if it wasn't shown as secure).

I hope securing chat programs from the company, ISP, government or competitor helps you as much as me! Personal privacy is a right and a choice no different than talking in your own home.

[EotM]

I'mafeelin: secure
I'malistinto: people beating on the door to come in