Its founders chose to launch Meebo light on features and then build as users requested. That's been the company's lifeblood, co-founder Seth Sternberg said in an interview with SEOmoz after Meebo received one of the Web site consulting firm's Web 2. Meebo uses an on-site blog to update users and a forum to gather their feedback and requests for new features. Count on Meebo to expand its offerings based on that input. Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close.
Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. How Meebo Works. Image courtesy of Meebo. What's a Meebo? Getting Started with Meebo " ". Go to Meebo , and click on the Meebo box at the far right. Click "Sign up" to open the registration window.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Meebo. If Meebo hears from a reliable source that you're younger, your account will be terminated. Type in an ID name and password. Type the same password again after "Confirm," and click "Next. Provide gender and age, if you want, and click "Create Meebo Account. You can add your IM networks and access buddies from all of them simultaneously. You can use Meebo without creating an account by signing into one of the listed IM networks, but you won't be able to IM with friends using other networks.
Yellow face with a plus sign - Click to add a buddy. Fill in the buddy's name and network, and click "Add Buddy. You'll need to click "Accept" to be added. To create a new buddy group, right click on any group header and then "Add New Group. Yellow face with minus sign - Highlight a buddy's name, and click on this to remove the buddy from your list. Talk bubble - Click to IM. Enter the buddy's name and IM network, and a chat window will open. The buddy list shows status icons for friends and an offline section so you know who's available.
Bubble and faces - Click to join or start a chat room. Rectangle with an arrow - Click to create a pop-up buddy list. Statement below the icons - Shows your availability. Click the triangle to change your status. Not a Fan. Meebo Rooms and Other Features " ".
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I recently used Meebo and I must admit I'm a little paranoid about typing my IM login information into a site like this. How do they store my username and password for each of the separate IM services? I only feel comfortable when a site takes my password and does some type of irreversible, one-way function on it, but it seems that Meebo would have to store my passwords in a way that they could retrieve them at anytime in order to facilitate the automatic logon into the separate IM services they support.
Am I justified in being paranoid about this? In order to access your Third Party IM Service account, you must enter your applicable user name s and password s on the Meebo Service.
If you wish to utilize advanced features of the Services, such as automatic sign-in, storage of your password s may be necessary. Yes, you are justified. Take note of lines 2 and 3. In order to do 3, Meebo needs your password; unless there's some cooperation between the IM provider and Meebo which is possible but unlikely it has, at some point between those lines, your plaintext password.
Congratulations, you no longer have complete control over your IM account; as far as the IM service cares, Meebo is you. In other words: do you trust Meebo not to abuse your password? Do you trust Meebo to protect your password? Do you trust that Meebo won't be hacked and your password stolen? As far as I see, there's no way to tell unless you're Meebo, which you're not. Oh, and to answer the question in the title: best practice would be "encrypt the password, don't keep the plaintext anywhere any longer than absolutely necessary ".
However, I've seen too many databases with plaintext password fields; some businesses apparently see encryption as waste of effort until Something Really Bad Happens. Does Meebo? I don't have a way to tell. On the meebo blog they discuss their security features in more detail. Here is the summary:. We only keep the decrypted version in memory, and we forget the decrypted version as soon as you log out. So the service seems pretty safe.
If you want to be extra safe don't log in with your meebo account, instead log in with your IM details.
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