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According to security analyst Jeffrey Carr, use of ICQ may cause security problems because it was purchased by Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies.

ICQ has fallen out of fashion in US and Britain, but it remains popular in eastern Europe and Russia.

Carr says the new ownership may be used by Russia's powerful secret service, the FSB ( formerly the KGB ) since Russian law, like the American law, requires ICQ to open its logs whenever they want ".

But so are other IMs too ( see Skype security, YIM SPIM, AIM vulnerabilities etc.

).