I made a post here the other day about a recent Cnet survey which was conducted to see which Instant Message Service available was the most secure. Services surveyed included AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, Facebook Chat, Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger, and Skype. The survey found that Skype is the most secure…
One of the easiest ways of staying in touch online for almost twelve years has been via Instant Message Services. ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, being released in November 1996. How secure are IM services though? With law enforcement agencies, ISPs, and ‘others’ able to ‘listen in’, how private are your messages?…
Mari Smith, John Reese and The Washington Post all caught my attention this week, and all for a similar reason. That reason is the online identity or persona of people using the internet, and how they conduct themselves. Mari talks about people using their photograph on Facebook (and by default other social networking websites). This…
September 17 2007 saw an incident at the University of Florida in which a student who was asking Senator John Kerry a series of questions relating to his relationship with the Bush family and the alleged rigging of votes in Florida during the Presidential election. The questions that the student, Andrew Meyer,asked John Kerry were:…
