Just about everyone today uses chat programs for either personal conversations or to exchange business information. Many people don’t even give it a second thought, but the fact is that almost all the most popular chat programs are unencrypted. This means that if a hacker were to intercept a conversation, or gain access to the chat archives they could just read right through the entire conversation. This could be potentially embarrassing for some people, or devastating to a business if the wrong type of information was intercepted. [Read more…]