Pidgin in Corporate Environment

[David Woolley]

Ahmed Rambarran wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to create a custom pidgin package that includes IM 
> communication for AOL, Yahoo, & MSN only where all the mentioned IM 
> channels get routed to an internal server? We are currently logging IM 
> conversations but users who have Pidgin installed on their machine seem 
> to bypass this feature. Please let me know if anyone has done this before.

Please remind me to avoid those services if I'm sending anything 
sensitive!  Are they really that vulnerable to a man in the middle 
attack, or are you using special remote clients, with the real IM client 
on your server?
> 

> 
> The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments may be 
> legally privileged, proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not an 

Clearly not true; you sent it to a public mailing list.  Its also a bit 
ironic as you seem to restricting your staff to insecure IM services!



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