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Did you catch our previous post reporting the AOL ToS changes?

America Online said late Monday that it plans to revise its user agreement in response to concerns that instant messages sent through the company’s service could be monitored. The new policy for AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, will stress that the company does not eavesdrop on customer’s conversations except in unusual circumstances such as a court order, an AOL spokesman said.

I guess AOL was reading some of our chat logs and noticed how unhappy people were.

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Ever since AOL announced that they had changed their ToS giving them rights to any and all content exchanged via AIM, I was scrambling to find methods of securing my chats. At the moment im using Adium which offers chat OTR (off the record encryption). For you windows users, you might want to check out the Gaim Encryption Plugin. Thanks Dan.