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Matt Conover worries that malicious Net users may know something about instant messaging that he doesn't. The hacker and security expert, who specializes in finding holes in instant messaging clients, ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you've been using a PC and going online since the days of dial-up modems and first-gen broadband, then you'll probably remember ICQ - one of the very ...

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Digital forensic analysis of instant messaging applications encompasses the systematic identification, acquisition, preservation, examination and interpretation of data generated by chat‐based ...