[clue-tech] Re: CLUE jabber server?

[Adam bultman]

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The company I work for uses jabber both for control (but not
necessarily monitoring) as well as security.  With Jabber, we can use
SSL to encrypt our traffic and pass sensitive information without fear
of anything leaking into the ether and having someone else "see" it.
IT makes life much easier.

I also (for some reason) installed "gaim-encryption", which will do
end-to-end encryption (although only myself and one other person
actually use it).

Adam


Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> On 12-15 08:06, Greg Knaddison wrote:
>
>> Personally, I don't see much benefit to a "PRIVATE" IM system.
>> Are you looking for privacy (like, nobody can read the message)?
>> Then why not use something like gaim-encryption so that the
>> messages are _really_ private and not just "as private as all the
>> routers and firewalls and servers in between keep them". If you
>> want to restrict the people in the pool that you are
>> sending/receiving IMs with, that's the buddy list and the "only
>> allow IMs from people on my buddy list" option.
>>
>> Other than those two items, what does a "PRIVATE" IM server get
>> you?
>
>
> Well, for corporations, they can host their own if they are the
> sort of company that wants to block/watch IM traffic that may be
> flowing out of the company. They could use jabber and block other
> clients. And you don't have to trust that every person is turning
> on encryption as well...assuming it's all routed locally or over
> something protected if co-located. All of your employees could even
> turn on encryption and still not be safe since outside folks might
> have theirs turned off.
>
> It's a control issue, I'd think. I know there are products being
> sold that will add more control and logging to IM communications,
> and hosting your own probably adds even more control.
>

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