Encryption

from http://www.aimencrypt.com: AIM is known to not have the best security, or any for that matter. If someone on your network is using a “packet sniffer” or other type of traffic analyzing tool they can see your AIM conversations and read them word for word. AIM Security using SSL Certificates makes your conversation appear much like trash to anyone analyzing what you type much like “Sw43jg73js7HSkg8Skeq3k65” instead of “Hello Friend”. This certificate encodes the message so only the sender and the receiver can read the message. But still please use common sense and don’t send credit card numbers, etc. over IM, this should only make you about “this” much safer on the internet, and make you feel cool having a padlock next to your name.

go to http://www.aimencrypt.com to get instructions and a certificate. Its free but some people rumor the certificate from aimencrypt makes your aim get warned for no reason.