I may not be an important person but I like my privacy. I don't want my personal conversations with friends
snooped on. How easy is it to decipher Instant Messages? Painfully easy as illustrated by the message (ie. "IM conversations are in plaintext") I sent out.
OTR is the solution.

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It is g-r-o-w-i-n-g for sure...
You may want to number me... I'm only a digit. 0.0