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FSIM Group Discussion Page
Hey everyone, this is the page on which we'll all post any new ideas, developements, research, etc. I've divided it up into a bunch of headings that we can use for this purpose. Be sure to add any headings that you see as being necessary. Thanks. Omar


 * July 12, 2007
 * To make it easier for everyone to know when something on these wiki pages are edited, add this page and the project page (see link above) to your watchlist. To do this, log in, go to the top of the page and click the "Watch" tab. What this does is that it makes any changes to the page show up in bold so that you can see them without having to search for them.

Discussion of Presentation Content/Formatting
I've set up a skeleton structure for the presentation wiki (see below for the link). Any feedback on what I did would be great.

Also, I thought that article on the hacker (see the Research/Information section below) presented a pretty interesting angle to our topic - even if the companies themselves didn't use the conversation logs for monitoring people, what if someone else hacked into their systems and did?

Organizational Ideas

 * Background to Instant Messaging Programs
 * What is Instant Messaging?
 * History of Instant Messaging
 * Purpose of Instant Messaging
 * Original (Intended) Purpose
 * Commercial/Modern Purpose (is it the same?)
 * How Instant Messaging Programs Work (basic)
 * Are People Monitored over Instant Messaging?
 * If yes, By whom?
 * Case Studies
 * For - why we should monitor people's IM conversations
 * Against - why we should not monitor people's IM conversations

Presentation Wiki Page Link
Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 203/CPSC 203 2007Summer L60/CPSC 203 2007Summer L60 TermProjects/Don't Shoot the Messenger?

Changes to Wiki Presentation Page
If we all put that page into our Watchlist as stated above, we can all see the changes each of us makes to the page. This would also be useful for on-the-fly editing, for example.

New Research/Information
Let's put all of our links and/or references up here, under each of our names.

Omar

 * 1) Here's an article about the monitoring of people using Instant Messaging programs. Here's the link: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/15/1018333471490.html
 * 2) And another one - this one is a little bit different, because it deals with a hacker who stole conversation logs from ICQ: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-254173.html?legacy=cnet
 * 3) Also, here's a link to some software that records Instant Messaging conversations: http://www.pctattletale.com/instant-message-monitoring.htm
 * 4) Here's an article about how monitoring of Instant Messaging conversations can be used to steal corporate secrets: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,2085865,00.htm
 * 5) Here's another article about a negative aspect of monitoring Instant Messaging Conversations...someone could record what you said without your consent: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,2089565,00.htm
 * 6) Here's an article not completely related to IM alone, but its a bill proposed by a Republican in the US that would require ISP's to record all IM convos, along with other stuff: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174524/republican-bill-calls-email
 * 7) Here's an article that discusses a Yahoo! lawsuit against its former employees - in the lawsuit, some of the main evidence is IM conversation history: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49514.html
 * 8) Here's an article about a virus that sends all your conversation histories to every contact in your contact list:http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39159096,00.htm
 * 9) This site provides a good objective look at monitoring people at work: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Being-Big-Brother-Monitoring-employees-network-activity.html

Karli

 * 1) How IT Departments are securing instant messaging http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/664855/how-departments-securing-instant-messaging
 * 2) Legal Problems with IM & business relations http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/11/10/focus15.html
 * 3) IM helped in the arrest of a sexual assault suspect http://www.ketv.com/news/7623603/detail.html
 * 5) Arrest of a cyber bully in Ontario http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/01/12/im-threats.html
 * 6) 2 Men in UK arrested for allegedly spreading worm. To get to this link you have to put in ur library #. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2930&purchase_type=ITM&item_id=0286-9144255
 * 7) Man charged for IM conversation http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/072506InstantMessaging.html
 * 8) IM & bad grammar http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=ee3c3bc5-c782-413c-8bfc-17bef2d8fc49&k=33268
 * 9) Google is merging email & IM http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184118,00.html
 * 10) IM & businesses - how to deal with security etc. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/39295.html
 * 11) IM Business Stats http://www.3w.net/lan/internet-use-statistics.html
 * 12) Catching Child Predators by using IM http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/560602/police_cast_net_to_catch_online_child_predators/index.html

Adebola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~yrjiang/background.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP030759401033.aspx http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/nov02/11-08MSN8GlobalTimeLine.mspx http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/special_initiatives/wa_resources/wa_teachers/are_you_web_aware/web_aware_im.cfm http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/cho.html http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-56/briefing-56-A5.doc http://communication.howstuffworks.com/instant-messaging.htm
 * 1) What is instant messaging?
 * 2) History of instant messaging
 * 3) History of instant messaging
 * 4) About instant messaging
 * 5) History of electronic mail
 * 6) History of MSN
 * 7) Instant messaging awareness
 * 8) Use of instant messaging
 * 9) The advantages and disadvantages of instant messaging
 * 10) How instant messaging works

Aletheia
http://communication.howstuffworks.com/instant-messaging.htm http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Youth_Culture_and_New_Technologies_-_MSN_Messenger
 * 1.) Tells you how Instant Messaging works:
 * 2.) Features of MSN:
 * 3.) Interesting Questions about Instant Messaging: http://ask-leo.com/instant_messaging.html
 * 4.) An article about how instant messaging works: http://www22.verizon.com/about/community/learningcenter/articles/displayarticle1/0,4065,1021z1,00.html

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2815785,00.html http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=142 http://www.izix.com/pro/lightweight/IM.php http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/046/2007/00000015/00000001/art00001 http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/emoticons.mspx http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/09/64969 http://filer.case.edu/~hxt36/mids1.html
 * 5.) People at work using IM that can leak information:
 * 6.) An article, more in depth of how IM works: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/25/how.messaging.works.idg/index.html
 * 7.) Instant Messaging or Instant Headache: Uses of IM in a workplace
 * 8.) A study done on IM
 * 9.) Small article on preference between IM an email
 * 10.) Shorthand on IM
 * 11.) More Shorthand on IM
 * 12.) Instant Messaging goes graphical
 * 13.)histoy! who invented IM

Marking
NOTE: All members of a group get the same mark.