mattw.fn_blog()

If you’re using AIM for IM, you should go download an Off-the-Record Messaging Proxy or pick up a client that uses it. OSX people can go grab the Adium Beta. OTR makes end-to-end encrypted client chat Just Work, and it does it in a pretty clean way. If you want to see why this is better/different from all the other approaches, go read the docs.