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Adium
Adium is a free and open source instant messaging client for macOS that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and XMPP.
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Advertising
Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
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Adware
Adware, or advertising-supported software, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.
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AIM (software)
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time.
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Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos is a computer security expert and chief information security officer at Facebook.
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Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Avatar (computing)
In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character.
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BitlBee
BitlBee is a cross-platform IRC instant messaging gateway, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public '''T'''uring test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
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Centericq
Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven instant messaging interface that supports the ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, IRC, XMPP, LiveJournal, and Gadu-Gadu protocols.
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Client (computing)
A client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server.
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Commodity market
A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products.
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Comparison of instant messaging clients
Instant messaging was created in July 1996 by Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser, and Amnon Amir, when they started a company called Mirabilis in order to introduce a new way of communication over the Internet.
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Comparison of instant messaging protocols
The following is a comparison of instant messaging protocols.
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Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent published literature.
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Dilbert
Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
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Empathy (software)
Empathy is an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols.
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End-to-end encryption
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages.
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Fire (instant messaging client)
Fire is an instant messaging client for Mac OS X (previously for OPENSTEP), that can access IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Bonjour.
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Forward secrecy
In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS), also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS), is a feature of specific key agreement protocols that gives assurances your session keys will not be compromised even if the private key of the server is compromised.
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
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Garfield
Garfield is a comic created by Jim Davis.
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Georgia-Pacific
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and related chemicals.
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GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format, better known by its acronym GIF, is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the bulletin board service (BBS) provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987.
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Government Communications Headquarters
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.
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ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging client that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996.
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Imeem
The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos.
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IMVU
IMVU Inc., (stylized as imvu) is an online metaverse and website.
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Information technology security audit
A computer security audit is a manual or systematic measurable technical assessment of a system or application.
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Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat that offers real-time text transmission over the Internet.
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Internet radio
Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, online radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.
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Java (programming language)
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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Jeff Bonforte
Jeff Bonforte is a Senior Vice President of Communications Products at Yahoo!, responsible for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Contacts and Yahoo! Calendar.
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Kopete
Kopete is a multi-protocol, free software instant messaging client released as part of the KDE Software Compilation.
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KPRC-TV
KPRC-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 35), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Houston, Texas, United States.
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Like button
A like button, like option, or recommend button is a feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs where the user can express that they like, enjoy or support certain content.
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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MacOS
macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.
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Mailto
mailto is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for email addresses.
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Mass surveillance
Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.
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Meebo
Meebo was an instant messaging and social networking service provider.
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Meetro
Meetro was a multi-network social messenger with location-based services (LBS).
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Messaging spam
Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS, or private messages within websites.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Miranda IM
Miranda IM is an open source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows.
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National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
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Optic Nerve (GCHQ)
Optic Nerve is a mass surveillance programme run by the British signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), with help from the US National Security Agency, that surreptitiously collects private webcam still images from users while they are using a Yahoo! webcam application.
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Paltalk
Paltalk is a proprietary video group chat service that enables users to communicate via video, internet chat and voice.
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PC Magazine
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
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Pedophilia
Pedophilia, or paedophilia, is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
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Pepsi
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink produced and manufactured by PepsiCo.
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Pidgin (software)
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log into various services from one application.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.
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Software release life cycle
A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software: ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help improve software or fix software bugs still present in the software.
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Solaris (operating system)
Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
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Symbian
Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones.
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Trillian (software)
Trillian is a proprietary multiprotocol instant messaging application for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and the Web, created by Cerulean Studios.
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Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
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Uniform Resource Identifier
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters designed for unambiguous identification of resources and extensibility via the URI scheme.
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Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (also voice over IP, VoIP or IP telephony) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
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Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet.
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Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) is a discontinued instant messaging client developed by Microsoft for Windows, Xbox 360, Mac OS X, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Java ME, S60 on Symbian OS 9.x, and Zune HD.
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Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a graphical subsystem by Microsoft for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..
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Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail is an e-mail service launched in 1997 through the American parent company Yahoo.
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Yahoo! Messenger Protocol
The Yahoo! Messenger Protocol (YMSG) is the underlying network protocol used by the Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging client.
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ZDNet
ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger
