how secure is gtalk, can i use gtalk at office, can my boss track and read my chat messages and logs? these are the questions came to my mind when one of my friend working in other company said me that he had a doubt whether his gtalk chat has been sniffed and monitored in his office by system administrator.
Now my main question was can anyone apart from google can read or hack my chat messages?
Though i am not a terrorist or doing fraud of some kind what i am looking for is a basic privacy while chatting with my friends and colleagues, though i know that Gtalk uses XMPP(JABBER) Protocol with ssl layer encryption and very much secure, what i am concerned is that if we are directed by a proxy, SSL can be easily defeated :( so what does it mean? since many office firewalls and antivirus run a proxy service to filter and block access to certain website it is easy for a network admin to sniff.
Whats more? I found a tons of apps available in market such as IMBoss Google Talk Sniffer Monitor and Inside Chat Spy etc which is said to sniff gtalk messages on the LAN network.
Whether it is sniffer, keylogger or your antivirus if management wants to sniff packets and your chat messages there is no one stopping them so be careful while chatting with friends and colleagues on office network if anyone knows more about the gtalk client and security do share your views with us
Now my main question was can anyone apart from google can read or hack my chat messages?
Though i am not a terrorist or doing fraud of some kind what i am looking for is a basic privacy while chatting with my friends and colleagues, though i know that Gtalk uses XMPP(JABBER) Protocol with ssl layer encryption and very much secure, what i am concerned is that if we are directed by a proxy, SSL can be easily defeated :( so what does it mean? since many office firewalls and antivirus run a proxy service to filter and block access to certain website it is easy for a network admin to sniff.
Whats more? I found a tons of apps available in market such as IMBoss Google Talk Sniffer Monitor and Inside Chat Spy etc which is said to sniff gtalk messages on the LAN network.
Whether it is sniffer, keylogger or your antivirus if management wants to sniff packets and your chat messages there is no one stopping them so be careful while chatting with friends and colleagues on office network if anyone knows more about the gtalk client and security do share your views with us
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