"I love how Chrome tells me that this link is insecure (something wrong with SSL). Oh coincidences..." See https://cacert.org/ https://cacert.org/ and install

"I love how Chrome tells me that this link is insecure (something wrong with SSL). Oh coincidences..." See https://cacert.org/ https://cacert.org/ and install their root if you think the CA model is broken and should be free. "Besides that, I don't quite understand what separates this from any other IM platform..?" GTalk, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, ICQ and Skype all encrypt your login details. Kik doesn't GTalk, ICQ and Skype all encrypt your actual conversations. Kik doesn't. All of the above mentioned IM services have publicly stated that they don't log IM conversations. Kik hasn't.