Google Talk: Code Name Cricket? (and other things of interest)

[princessfrozen]

So I ran googletalk through strings.exe (output can be found here: http://www.princessfrozen.com/gtalk.txt) and a couple things of interest made it seem like Google Talk was code named Cricket in house.

Line 1487 : c:\cricket_builds\64\sources\googleclient\experime ntal\phone\app\statusmenu.h

Line 1492: ../../cricket/xmpp/xmpplib\buzz/saslcookiemechanism.h
Line 1492: ../../cricket/xmpp/xmpplib\buzz/saslplainmechanism.h

Also of interest were these things:

Line 1457: http://www.google.com/xmpp/protocol/voice/v1
Line 1458: http://www.google.com/xmpp/protocol/session
Line 1556: http://www.google.com/xmpp/client/caps
Line 1563: http://www.google.com/xmpp/client/caps#
Line 1569: http://www.google.com/session/phone

I'm sure there's some other interesting stuff in there, thats just what stood out to me.

[Fanatic]

Good stuff princess. I can hear those crickets chirping now!

The thing that popped out in my pea-brained mind were these lines:

Equifax Secure Inc.1-0+
$Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-10

If anyone wondered how the hell Google was going to monetize this thing... this should open a few eyeballs. My bet is that they are prepared to offer PC-to-phone calls like Skype-Out.

Chirp... chirp... ka-ching!

[princessfrozen]

Yeah that Equifax thing was a little hmmmmm to me too. I'm not quite sure I want any of my Google account details even remotely going to Equifax.

[princessfrozen]

http://www.princessfrozen.com/gtalk.htm

some tweaks and stuff

[Hasan]

Nice finding princess

[Spike]

Well, I scanned through it quick, and most of it's basic, you can find some of the behind-the-scenes stuff in there.

For instance, as I looked quickly, I saw some HTTP Request Modes for talking to Google's server no doubt, some eror messages, a few wave file names, and this caught my eye, too:

Sorry, I ran out for a bit!

The dfault gAIM Away Message, correct me if I'm wrong, I remember it from the GUI of Fedora Core 4. It was sitting 1/3 of the way down the file. Interesting things you can find using strings.exe