File Sharing and IM/Chat
By Oli
At 9:22 AM · Thursday, 20 February · 2003
To Apple · The ‘Net
Miwa’s birthday! Woop.
I heard about an interesting program (thanks Gios) - iSwipe. It’s a general multi-protocol download app for Macs compatible with: WWW, FTP, Hotline, Napster, OpenNapster, Gnutella, FastTrack and Carracho(*) networks, and soon the OpenFT network. The way the site is worded would be .. interesting for RIAA reps :-)
Getting into security, especially after hearing a rumor (urban legend?) that MSN was logging all Messenger text. Jabber allows ssl connections over port 5223 (the standard is 5222). The protocol also supports GPG session encrypting, but my (excellent, multi-protocol) chat client Proteus doesn’t support that quite yet.
