Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Dec 2005 18:10 UTC
A significant instant messaging project between Google and America Online is now underway. Google and AOL plan to let their respective instant messaging features communicate. This way, someone using Google Talk could chat with an AIM user, and vice versa.
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2005-11-11
The problem with that (to me anyway) is that you send your account name and password to the Jabber server that is acting as a gateway to the other network.
AOL I think it was who claimed they were blocking Trillian because of the security implications of entering your AOL password in a 3rd party app (Trillian).
The thing of it is though that Trillian doesn't send your password in to Cerulean, it is stored locally and sent to the AIM network to log you in. Assuming on trusts Cerulean to not have your password sent to them, you are good.
With Jabber it is different, your (AIM, ICQ, MSN, whatever) password actually goes to the Jabber server. I'm not sure I trust some random Jabber server with my ICQ password. If you have a server you know you trust, great, but the fact remains that a third party has access to your password. I refuse to use Jabber as a gateway to ICQ/AIM/MSN for that reason.