A friend shared this with me the other day after we were discussing the current drama: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/ https://www.npluso

A friend shared this with me the other day after we were discussing the current drama: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/ Apparently AOL eventually "beat" MSN trying to reverse engineer their protocol by exploiting a known buffer overflow in their own implementation, and then MSN fumbled by trying to leak the security issue to put pressure on AOL but being too transparent in their manipulations and losing the PR battle that ensued.