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AOL Selling AIM Gateway/Listener To Employers
PizzaFace writes "After pushing free instant messaging to more than 100,000,000 users, AOL is now selling AIM-monitoring software to businesses that want to monitor and control the messaging of their employees. AIM Enterprise Gateway will reportedly sell for about $35/employee/year."
"Ritter anticipates that encrypted instant messaging will appeal greatly to federal agencies that want secure, interagency instant messaging. "Our military and intelligence customers are more interested in the secure version," Ritter said."
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Jeez, better off with RogerWilco than AIM to communicate on the battlefield
*friendly aol voice speaking*
"You Got Fired!"
Remember that you are unique, just like everybody else.
I thought it was just an unfortunate coincidence when my boss and HR popped into my cube when my pants were down around my ankle due to that hot chat with an 18/f Solaris admin.
Oh yeah, great idea...
Use a product from a giant evil corporation trying to get away from a giant evil corporation!
I'm sure M$ won't catch on to this stuff... *rolleyes*
I wouldn't be suprised if M$ already was monitoring your communications on msn...
Yeah, right.
"Hey boss, Karen in Accounts sent out 54 megs of messages last month"
"What were they about?"
"Dunno, they were all just squiggly characters"
"Ok, well lets just assume its work related. After all, like all other companies, we use pokey messaging software to talk to clients. Let me know when it looks like she's wasting my time and money."
Think you have some slackers around the office spending all their time chatting online, spilling the beans about your financials, or just bad-mouthing the CEO? Take AIM and blow them away with our instant message monitoring software!
First Falcon-1 to orbit, then Falcon-9. Then I can die a happy man.
My managers are listening to my phone calls
My managers are reading my e-mail
My managers are reading my IMs
My managers are monitoring what candy I get from the vending machine
You know for someone who is supposed to be in charge of managing a department/whatever, has work (or should have) of their own to do, he's taking a really big interest in what I'm doing back here.
But with AIM you could write very important messages across the battefiled such as
:-(
:-)
:-O
;)
Solider5554: Sarge! We're under fire! We need help!
Sarge0034: Hang in there. You're doing a great job solider
Solider5554: Arrrghhh!!!! I've been hit!
Sarge0034: God, these whining soliders never know when to quit, that god they're dispensible.
Sarge0034: Oppsss. Wrong person sorry.
Solider5554: What!? I need a chopper. I'm losing a lot of blood over here. >:-@
Sarge0034 (warn 10%): Hey, just because you've warned me anonymously, doesn't mean I don't know it's you.
Sarge0034: brb *door slam* as sarge leaves
*door open* as sarge enters
Sarge0034: Sorry had to reboot, did I miss anything?
Solider324: uuuuhhhhhh I don't think I'm going to make it
Marketing people use a different dictionary than the rest of us.
Most AIM users manually encrypt their message using a collection of complex command line tools. Therefore, the content IS secure.
I thought everyone knew that!
come on fhqwhgads
this could help move more and more users to use alternate messaging utilities
In other news, corporate phone bills are on the rise.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you get to sell him fishing gear for a lifetime." :-/
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
"So easy to spy with, no wonder its Number 1!"
That's great. Now I can sit at my desk and see what AOLholes have to say:
:)):) ;)
hpyrabbit1981: Ya! LOL!
dlscowboys0101: hi rabbit how r u?
tina23992: me 2!
hpyrabbit1981: @->-- cowbyos
memphisflowershop2: me too! a/s/l?
I don't want that. I let the AOLers have their little messenger and chat rooms and they can crap all over it as much as they want. I much prefer slashdot, where frist porst's and goatse.cx reign supreme!
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
Awe C'mon, you're just jealous =)
So AOL gives away IM service, makes it impossible to block, but then sells a sniffer. What's next? They'll sell super-encrypted service for a fee to the user base, then a few years down the road, they'll sell an unencryption ad-on to the sniffer, then...
Is it just me, or does that business plan sound familiar?
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