using jabber transports to utilize an old existing xy account

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Cyberhawk

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se unió: 07/27/2010

I think all of us know this situation. You used to have ICQ, MSN or whatever. Someday you realized what was wrong about them and switched to jabber, however your old accounts live on and lay around on servers like some weird remains.

In my case it's ICQ. But many people have difficulties setting up jabber. I know it may sound strange, but I've encountered several people who couldn't set up jabber to chat with me. I needed to create accounts for them first and give them the login data. If you don't have to register on some corporate website and fill in your personal details it is apparently not user friendly enough. So I want to start using jabber transports to utilize my old ICQ account. What are the ethics about that? I don't encourage people to use ICQ (always tell my JID first and try to help to set up Pidgin/Miranda whenever possible) and I can't delete my old ICQ account, so it will stay there anyway.

Daniel Molina
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se unió: 07/04/2009

If people in the other side doesn't cipher your messages with, for example, OTR (interesting EFF post about it [1]), the protocol owners will know everything about your talks. But for ciphering they need to migrate from their last privative IM client to, for example, Pidgin, and it is practically as difficult as making a new jabber account and installing a new client. Also, to cipher talks can seem stupid for them, although be able of talking to you maybe not. But probably for you privacy is a big deal.

Today I decided to solve this problem. I wrote to all my (off-line) buddies telling that I'm going to leave MSN (spanish).

http://pastebin.com/QAd4QrjV

It links to a bigger message (due to space limitation of the message) (spanish):

http://pastebin.com/YryRMjQ7

Probably it only has less than 5% of effectiveness, but virtual life is not really so much important. It also steels you a lot of time.

Also I removed my google account that I had associated. I had to look for a tutorial, since it was no evident how to do it.[2]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/open-source-security-auditing

[2] http://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-Google-or-Gmail-Account