3 ms·
Really? They are sending messages as plain-text over the wire? Now I was going to say encryption is pointless anyway as Microsoft (as did Skype previously) hap
by revelation 11y ago
Really? They are sending messages as plain-text over the wire?
Now I was going to say encryption is pointless anyway as Microsoft (as did Skype previously) happily log everything and give it to more and less democratic governments all over the world. But at least use some encryption to keep the middle man out.
- userbinator 11y agoThe very earliest versions used plaintext, but they started tunneling it over HTTPS a long time ago more due to firewalls than out of privacy reasons. I don't think people ever thought MSNP was end-to-end secured, and treated it more or less like an instant form of email. On the other hand, authentication was always secured via HTTPS, so passwords were never sent in plaintext.