Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:41:55 Andy Green wrote: >> Another practical issue is that most IM traffic is encrypted nowadays > Here in Spain the most popular IM system is MSN Messenger and it's not > encrypted. > Just a man-in-the-middle attack you'll be able to read all the conversations > And it's almost impossible to defend yourself against those type of > attacks :-) Well I guess they would say most email goes out unencrypted too. Still clearly that is good to know if you planned to use MSN Messenger in a Coffee Shop type scenario using unencrypted Wifi... you just need a man-drinking-cappuchino-with-tcpdump attack to read it all then... -Andy
