Solid Block of Ise

In the light of recent events I’ll be switching completely to a different messaging-protocol. I’ve been mulling this over before, but have been too much of a coward to make a definitive decision.

No more though. Come Friday, June 27th, 2008 I will completely stop using MSN and ICQ in favor of a non-proprietary protocol. If you want to continue chatting with me after then (and by extension if you basically want to continue being my friend) then you will simply have to adapt.

My weapon of choice in the future will be the so-called “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol” aka XMPP, formerly known as Jabber. There’s a multitude of clients available. Under Linux I recommend Pidgin and under Windows I feel Pandion is a nice and clean client. Mac users do good in choosing Adium.

My decision for this switch is two-fold:

1) As mentioned earlier I have grown weary of proprietary chat-protocols. I just don’t trust them much any more.
2) After the FRA-law was voted through I’ve become more interested in encryption, and most XMPP-servers come with encryption enabled by default. Jabber.se which is the server I use does.

If you’re too much of a chicken to completely give up your proprietary protocols though, you can either use a transport or use a client with multi-capability.

As for me, after Friday I will only be accessible for chat through XMPP. I’m isecore@jabber.se so give me a holler. While XMPP isn’t a perfect protocol, at least it’s free as in freedom.

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