I completed further investigations to find out if I needed to be concerned about Xobni possibly hemorrhaging sensitive information. This what I found and my analysis. The capture that was done, was with almost all services shut off and the capture was done over a 5 minute period where I just opened Outlook and let Xobni do its thing and see if it did any interesting call outs to the net. I am sure more interesting things happened over a long period of time, but I only have so much time to analyze traffic.


The first call out, based on what I can tell is a check for updates either for the software or the ads in the software



Next it contacted Xobni.com again, using an ID that can track me and it is looking for new messages" not sure what it is doing there"



Next it completed a call back to Xobni.com asking for if I still have invites left to give to friends and if I do, post Ad about it below.




Now granted I am making some assumptions here and I am basing this off of the Stream in my analysis in my observation, but the simple fact that I am being ID'd and can be tracked is dis concerning to me. Unless I know exactly what they are using the ID for and the potential encrypted messages in the stream, that right there is enough to have me stop using Xobni despite its productivity increase.

Let me know your thoughts