Practice Safe Meebo

May 19th, 2006

For those that use Meebo as their IM reference tool (it’s really the easiest to use - no downloads, the whole 2.0 thing) should take a look at this blog post from the company:

“A number of meebo users have started using third-party proxies and this caused us to worry a bit. Proxies are ripe for phishing attacks and the chances of an unknown agent sniffing your conversations or stealing your passwords are significantly increased. Reliability is questionable and privacy becomes a major concern. The technology can be abused in ways that compromise the security of your session.”

They’ve come up with a solution. Darned if I understand the techie side. Just an FYI.

Aside: Does any library use Skype to do VOIP reference with users?

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