| Subject: Live Messenger Conversation Privacy & Security |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger |
| Date: 4/24/2008 3:51:00 PM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?SG93YXJk?= [Email Address Protection] |
Hi all, There are so many MSN conversation sniffer ads on the Internet. A search with keywords: 'msn sniffer' returns 514,000 results. The first results says: "MSN Sniffer - Caputre MSN chate on your network". Apparently MSN chats can be intercepted on local networks. This seems to be a very serious issue, but there seems to be no solution for this, and all major IMs send plain-text. Can anyone comment on this? |
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| Subject: Re: Live Messenger Conversation Privacy & Security |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger |
| Date: 4/24/2008 7:22:10 PM |
| From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" [Email Address Protection] |
Greetings Howard, Messenger conversations are sent in plain-text and as such, if network traffic is passing by a node on a local network, it can be sniffed. If this is rather troublesome, you can use something like Simp to encrypt the traffic: http://www.secway.fr/us/products/simplite_msn/home.php -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "Howard" <Howard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0659C33B-8F72-446E-BBE5-002890B01E07@microsoft.com... > Hi all, > > There are so many MSN conversation sniffer ads on the Internet. A search > with keywords: 'msn sniffer' returns 514,000 results. The first results says: > "MSN Sniffer - Caputre MSN chate on your network". > Apparently MSN chats can be intercepted on local networks. This seems to be > a very serious issue, but there seems to be no solution for this, and all > major IMs send plain-text. > > Can anyone comment on this? |
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