How can I stop spying on my conversations?

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There is someone on my Network uses a software to spy on Network Members'
Conversations of Messenger. I think it called "IM Monitor MSN (or Yahoo)
Spy". How can I stop him from spying on my conversations? Is there an antispy
can help?
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Ragab
 
Ragab <Ragab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> There is someone on my Network uses a software to spy on Network
> Members' Conversations of Messenger. I think it called "IM Monitor MSN
> (or Yahoo) Spy". How can I stop him from spying on my conversations?
> Is there an antispy can help?

You could use Pidgin (www.pidgin.im) instead of the normal client, and
install the OTR plugin from Cypherpunks. If both sides use that, they
can enable OTR encryption which will give the guy with the network
monitor gibberish.

Juergen Nieveler
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Lunix... because I'm better than you.
 
"Ragab" <Ragab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> There is someone on my Network uses a software to spy on Network
> Members'
> Conversations of Messenger. I think it called "IM Monitor MSN (or
> Yahoo)
> Spy". How can I stop him from spying on my conversations? Is there
> an antispy
> can help?
> --
> Ragab


To whom does the network belong? Who owns the property that comprises
the network?
 
Thanks Juergen. but the account i'm talking to may not have OTR. So, is there
another way just for me, i mean another way can be used with one side not
both sides?
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Ragab


"Juergen Nieveler" wrote:

> Ragab <Ragab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > There is someone on my Network uses a software to spy on Network
> > Members' Conversations of Messenger. I think it called "IM Monitor MSN
> > (or Yahoo) Spy". How can I stop him from spying on my conversations?
> > Is there an antispy can help?
>
> You could use Pidgin (www.pidgin.im) instead of the normal client, and
> install the OTR plugin from Cypherpunks. If both sides use that, they
> can enable OTR encryption which will give the guy with the network
> monitor gibberish.
>
> Juergen Nieveler
> --
> Lunix... because I'm better than you.
>
 
Ragab <Ragab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks Juergen. but the account i'm talking to may not have OTR. So,
> is there another way just for me, i mean another way can be used with
> one side not both sides?

Only other way I could think of would be to use a Jabber client on your
end and a Jabber server with the transport services for Yahoo and MSN,
and SSL-encryption between you and the server.

That way, the Jabber server would log into Yahoo/MSN for you, and your
session would be encrpyted.

Juergen Nieveler
--
Windows: Just another pain in the glass.
 
You should notify your IT department immediately. I'm a network admin and I
would LOVE for one of my users to try something like this. It would give me
a break from my day to day work to track him/her down and disable their
account while I notified management.

If you suspect that one of your co-workers is spying on other co-workers,
report it.

That being said, there's nothing on my network that doesn't pass through a
number of filters and logs managed by IT. If it's not encrypted, then it's
logged. IT is authorized to do this in many companies though. A user doing
it to another user, I would imagine, would be grounds for dismissal.


On 3/20/08 9:47 AM, in article
B9454C91-1183-4E23-B36B-C7C6E4455E5D@microsoft.com, "Ragab"
<Ragab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks Juergen. but the account i'm talking to may not have OTR. So, is there
> another way just for me, i mean another way can be used with one side not
> both sides?
 
No. IM networks are notoriously reluctant to implement encryption, this
probably being a cornerstone for their worldwide acceptance (government
agencies, different laws).
Me and my parties use Macs and Adium, which has the OTR built-in, so
encryption happens on application level.
As for your specific problem, it needs to be solved locally with
administrative resources, not technical (unless you can affect the other
parties' choice of tools).
Unless you're a network admin or can get netadmin's help, you're better off
such network. At least in the sense of your IM needs.

Ragab felt like saying:

> Thanks Juergen. but the account i'm talking to may not have OTR. So, is there
> another way just for me, i mean another way can be used with one side not
> both sides?
 
Can Spam <bogus@canspam.org> wrote:

> No. IM networks are notoriously reluctant to implement encryption,
> this probably being a cornerstone for their worldwide acceptance
> (government agencies, different laws).
> Me and my parties use Macs and Adium, which has the OTR built-in, so
> encryption happens on application level.

To be fair, though, most Jabber servers DO have SSL enabled :-)

As for the rest, they're more or less built upon variations of IRC, and
the programmers were either too lazy to include SSL capability, or
smart enough to know that they don't know enough about encryption to
make it safe.


Juergen Nieveler
--
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them
 
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