Re: Survey: Chat and IM

From: Sumit Dhar (ml_dhar@yahoo.com)
Date: 11/28/02

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    From: "Sumit Dhar" <ml_dhar@yahoo.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>, "Zinger" <zinger@zinger.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:41:28 +0530

    > Something to think about is setting up an internal IM server as a
    compromise.

    In fact, we had a similar issue at my place of worl. We finally decided to
    go with Jabber (http://www.jabber.org/)

    It is a pretty full featured IM product and has support for SSL and
    Encrypted one on one chats.

    With Regards,
    Sumit Dhar
    http://www.rootshell.be/~dhar

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