Hello Frank, I have used Adium for at least 4-5 years. It is a very good piece of open source software. It is possible to secure all communications through Adium using OTR (Off-The-Record) crypto. [1] I would leave commenting about the security of OTR to others, but in my view it is secure (except multiuser chats, and file transfers). I have Facebook chat, and GTalk configured on Adium, but do not use them as preferred communications channels. GTalk certainly was working this morning when I was using my Mac (if it wasn't it would notify me with an error). You can configure it for GTalk by following the steps. [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging [2] http://support.google.com/talk/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=24075 I hope that helps. Bernard On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:42:23 -0700, frank@journalistsecurity.net wrote:

I wonder if people here recommend the open source freeware Chat tool Adium?

http://adium.im/about [1]/

And whether they would recommend using it with Facebook?

Or, if not, Google Talk?

Thanks! FS

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