Live Messenger Text Conversation Encryption

Greetings,

With the exception of authentication to the service, Messenger traffic is sent in plain-text,
unencrypted.

However, no magic program is going to be able to "sniff" traffic unless it's actually
following through the sniffer.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
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<Tiezheng@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Recently I heard that there're some sniffer programmes that intercept
> MSN text conversations. So I'm just wondering how are the latest Live
> Messenger's text conversations encrypted? Or is it encrypted at all?
> And how reliable are they?
>
> Cheers!!
>