A great reason to get Gaim-Encryption

[iago]

Ergot brought this to my attention:

"AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM, that include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: '...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.'"

Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses.

I STRONGLY encourage anybody who doesn't to begin using Gaim with the Gaim-Encryption plugin!  It works great on all platforms, and will stop AOL, its parent, affiliates, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc. from selling your conversations as a book.

[Joe]

Hmph! I always wondered how Abbey got so rich! (jk)

I use Gaim-Encryption. gg @ aol

[deadly7]

Would that be GAIM with GTK or without, or is GTK something else? ( dled it a while ago, don't remember)

[Joe]

Eeny menie miney moe!

[Ergot]

gAIM needs GTK to run, if you don't have it then get gAIM with GTK, but if do you have it then gAIM is a much smaller download, I get them both because the size makes a difference of about 5 seconds :/

[Newby]

When I installed all packages on my friend's computer (Slackware 10.1), it came with Gaim-Encryption. I smiled. ;D

[iago]

If anybody needs help installing it, let me know.  Somehow I got it working instantly for Quik, even though I expected it to be difficult.  It's not easy getting the nss and nspr and all that jazz.

[Quik]

I had it half done already before I asked for help, I'm too slick.

[Joe]

Wow, eye, lyk, got all teh way through on me own, i r leet.

[Ergot]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/blog/3082956

[Joe]

Omg, we can't be paraniod anymore? Haha, sure we can. Just look at iago.

[iago]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/blog/3082956

I don't trust them.

I don't think they're going to be selling a book like "Stories from iago", because that would be too obvious.  But I do think that they intend to use information from conversations and such for data mining, the same way that GMail does.  I don't like that either.

Besides, encryption is still a good idea :D