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AIM Sniff 1.0beta (stable) released
Stable version 1.0beta of AIM Sniff
has been announced.
"AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AIM and MSN messages across a network. It can be used to monitor for cases of harassment or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the file for IM messages. You also have the option of dumping the information to a MySQL database or STDOUT."
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AIM Sniff 1.0beta (stable) released
Posted Feb 9, 2006 19:55 UTC (Thu) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
> Stable version 1.0beta
whoa, that's cute!
Why not call it Big Brother Wiretap(tm) 101?
Posted Feb 10, 2006 6:33 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]
Why not call it Big Brother Wiretap(tm) 101?
AIM Sniff 1.0beta (stable) released
Posted Feb 11, 2006 16:30 UTC (Sat) by scarabaeus (subscriber, #7142) [Link]
I'm pretty certain that operation of this program would be illegal in Germany, where personal communication (letters, phone calls, emails) has special protection and intercepting it generally requires a court order. This is probably also true for many other countries.