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Secure IM for internal communication

During this summer we finally got some time to review our internal working processes. One thing clearly missing was a solid IM solution for quick communication when working remotely. After trying out several different approaches we decided to use the old and well-proven one: IRC. Very important feature we were looking for was secure communication. Domen mentioned something about FISH, a blowfish implementation for IRC chats. One google search away we had exactly what we needed. Kubuntu users get Konversation installed on their system by default and Konversation has built-in support for FISH. Nice. Those of us using Colloquy on OS X, however, needed to install a plugin - FISHy. Download, copy to Plugins folder and we were set. Simple and effective. I like it when things just work.