** Net Messaging Called ‘Catastrophic’
The world’s most widely used Internet “instant-messaging” service is a
security disaster waiting to happen, according to networking experts
familiar with the program. ICQ lacks secure barriers against hijacking,
spoofs, and other hostile programs that can listen in on personal, and
potentially sensitive, communications sent over the system.
Each day, more than 3 million people use ICQ to send quick and easy text
messages to friends and coworkers over the Internet. Messages appear
instantaneously in a window on the users’ desktops. More than 12 million
users are registered with ICQ, and the program is gaining popularity in
corporate settings as a productivity tool for office workers, such as
for
exchanging information like sales figures.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/12758.html
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