Securing your Chats (Yahoo, MSN , Gtalk )

It is rather common for workplaces to monitor instant messaging traffic, and savvy individuals could do it by intercepting, say, your Wi-Fi signal in your house or a public wireless hotspot. If you're discussing sensitive material via IM, you might want to consider encrypting your IM traffic.

The good news is that encryption is available for virtually every IM platform.I have listed a few softwares that will help us secures our IM Environments

SimpPro
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SimpPro secures popular instant messengers (MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Jabber, Google Talk ) by encrypting text messages and file transfers. SimpPro is the commercial version of SimpLite

Features:

Encrypts IM text messages before they leave your computer
Protects MSN Messenger and ICQ/AIM file transfers
Personal, small business and corporate use
Full compatibility with popular IM networks, clients and with SimpLite

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SimpLite
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Its the free MSN Messenger encryption solution and it encrypts messages before they leave your computer to the Internet. SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations. As the original successor of Simp 1.0, SimpLite-MSN benefits from state of the art algorithms to secure your messages, whilst maintaining an intuitive interface.

SimpLite-MSN is free for personal use at home or at the office. However, only one product from the SimpLite family can be launched at the same time on your computer.

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