Proof enough?
Today (actually for some people as early as 3+ days ago it seems) a new buddy appeared on almost everybody’s ICQ contact list called “ICQ System” with the number 12111. This has been added by ICQ themselves. Their site states:
As part of the process of upgrading ICQ users to our newest, most advanced version, ICQ6, we have added a new user name to your contact list “ICQ System”. The newly added user is intended to improve ICQ’s line of communication with our users and assure you continue to enjoy talking to everybody, everywhere
Of course they did not tell anybody they would do that. So some people thought it would be funny to spread the rumour that ICQ has been hacked by some superhackers
and (of course) everybody believed them.
For me personally this shows how unprofessional ICQ does business and what Jabber/XMPP, due to it’s decentralized character, does a lot better then proprietary IM services.
In Jabber/XMPP world
- most server admins wouldn’t do such a thing without telling their users
- it would be pretty easy to contact your server admin, because (if you choose a server the way you should) you trust him and know at least that he is responsive and friendly
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Tags: bashing, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, stupidity
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