Jabber and iPhone

I began to think about the protection of personal data in the future. I did not want to leave ICQ, because in our country ICQ is the de facto standard for office communication, and by switching to MSN or GTalk, I will immediately lose my friends due to network incompatibility. Jabber came to the rescue.

Unlike commercial instant messaging systems such as AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo, Jabber is decentralized, extensible and open. Jabber accounts look like . There are many servers providing registration services, here are just a small part of them. Jabber is able to carry out the transport of the ICQ protocol on itself. It turns out that you are sitting in Jabber, and communicate in ICQ. Why such a perversion, you ask?

Jabber supports such data protection and encryption tools as SSL/TSL, PGP/GPG, SecureIM, OTR.

ICQ cannot boast of any of them without the help of third-party programs.
In addition, Jabber is an IM system with decentralized servers. That is, if one of them fails, it will not cause the fall of the entire network in general. And its support by such serious services as Google and others indicates the correctness of the choice.

In addition, Jabber works ONLY in UTF-8 encoding, which is automatically converted on the server - this removes the issue of offline crackers. The iPhone is no exception.

Let's move from theory to practice. To get started, you need to download the Jabber client. I opted for the multi-platform Psi IM, which replaced Adium.

Create a new account the first time you launch the client. To do this, I recommend using the server jabberon.com, which supports icq streams.

The only thing left to do is to use the iPhone. We need a free program, or a more advanced paid one.

In general, Jabber turned out to be not such a scary beast, but quite pleasant and fluffy. And most importantly, I'm back in the ranks :-)

Thank you for your support and help in writing the article, Kit, Narmo, Trunk and Kosmi4.

P.S. Communication in Beejive is the same as if you were communicating via ICQ. While chatting with Kosmi4 I took a picture of myself on my iPhone and sent the picture. It turned out that the file was first placed on the Beejive server, and then Kosmi4 became available.

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