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RE: discovered a security vulnerability
What makes you think chat logs are saver on a server, that's giving control over security away to an unknown party. What if the server gets hacked? Then the hacker in question will have access over all the chat logs instead of just those from a single person. Server-side storage makes it a much bigger target. And we'll still have to download the logs to our local machines to be able to view it, a person with access to the local macine will still be able to "steal" the log files as before.

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Originally posted by allaoua
MSN only without Messenger Live Plus can never have this problem.
Windows Live Messenger (as MSN is called for years now) has its own chat logging functionallity too, you don't need Messenger Plus! for that. Live Messenger's own chat logging also stores the log files locally. In a way Live Messenger's own logging functionallity is less secure, because Messenger Plus! allows password protected log files, Live Messenger does not.
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discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 11:43 AM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Tochjo on 07-30-2010 at 11:49 AM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 12:00 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Patchou on 07-30-2010 at 03:48 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by matty on 07-30-2010 at 04:08 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 04:37 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 05:36 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 07:36 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 07:47 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 08:15 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by matty on 07-30-2010 at 08:22 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 08:29 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by lizard.boy on 07-30-2010 at 08:32 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 08:49 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by andrey on 07-30-2010 at 09:41 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 09:47 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Chrono on 07-30-2010 at 10:04 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Kafman on 07-30-2010 at 10:42 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Chrissy on 07-31-2010 at 02:08 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by matty on 07-31-2010 at 03:41 PM


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