Increased Messages security leaves iChat, third-party IM clients by the wayside<article>
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Sometimes there’s no choice but to let go of the past. Case in point, those with AOL Instant Messenger accounts based on their Mac.com and Me.com email addresses. Many of those folks were surprised on Tuesday when they found themselves unable to log in either on older versions of OS X or via third-party IM clients, such as Adium.</p><p>
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enhanced security that Apple has put in place as of July 1, folks with those specific usernames can no longer connect to the AIM service with clients other than Messages running on OS X 10.7.2 or later.</p><p>
The use of Mac.com screennames dates back to 2002, around the time Apple first launched iChat—for those keeping score at home, that’s three iterations of Apple’s online service ago. (It was still iTools at that point.) Upon the service’s transition to MobileMe, Apple added the ability for users to log in with their Me.com addresses as well.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2449595/increased-messages-security-leaves-ichat-third-party-im-clients-by-the-wayside.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Increased Messages security leaves iChat, third-party IM clients by the wayside
