> Almost none of the XMPP clients use plain text connection nowadays. Everything shown in the article works with or without TLS enabled. It doesn't matter. The

> Almost none of the XMPP clients use plain text connection nowadays. Everything shown in the article works with or without TLS enabled. It doesn't matter. The server-side party sees cleartext XMPP packets passing the server. > all their tcpdump tricks fail There are no "tricks" in the article. It is just capturing network traffic. The point here is that XMPP traffic isn't magically invisible to third parties that observe the network traffic as some people claim.