[OTR-users] Plugin for Windows Live Plus!

[Jean-Baptiste Zeller]

Hello,

In my quest to convert my friends to the use of Off the Record I came to 
the unfortunate conclusion that installing pidgin for them sound like 
the end of the world, and while pidgin is a good program it's shortfall 
like the absence of Webcam support, it's plain appearance compared to 
the flashy windows live interface made it difficult for them to make the 
switch...

But those same people for I would qualify "immature teenager reason" 
don't mind to install Windows Live Plus! to do silly things like change 
the messenger appearance put color code in their text and other and feed 
whatever ad agency with precious data if they forgot during the 
installation to opt out of the advertising program.

While at first programming off the record in JScript seemed borderly 
heretic, I discovered that the script could include call to external 
dlls library which could -just before sending a message- intercept it, 
pass it over to a otr.dll library who could return the processed 
message, leaving the encryption part to a dll and only leaving the UI to 
be scripted.

I'm pretty certain that it would be one of the best solution yet to make 
it easier for off the record to be adopted by the growing MSN user 
population.

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Jean-Baptiste Zeller