I never trusted in ICQ
I was reading Rocky Oliver’s weblog entry ICQ no more and remembered that when it came out I was tempted to get an ICQ id but I was really concerned about the security of it and that it offered some functionalities targeted for “kids” (I’ll probably talk later about what that means for me).
I never trusted on it and never needed it, and looks like I did the right choice.
For sure there are better and newer choices than the “old” IM tools, so you may start to try one of those.
Thanks a lot, Cesar, for the pingback ! I must say that after having read your weblog post and, specially, Rocky’s, I am not surprised about what happened. These days it is very difficult to find an IM client that may not have been hacked in the past and given the fact that ICQ has been in market for so long I am just not surprised at all. I, too, have got a very low number, I probably got it about 7 years ago, but it has probably been months since last time I tried to log in and it would not be too strange if I could no longer access it. Either way, and pretty much like Rocky I guess I have been looking for something else than just IM and the combination of VoIP and IM tools seem to be the good match now. At least, so far and since I got started using those VoIP / IM tools I have yet to encounter the first security exposure. I know they might come at some point but so far so good. Let’s see for how long. Again, thanks for the pingback !
Comment by Luis Suarez — December 1, 2005 @ 10:27 am