>>105838091 (OP)buying drugs, and a little light piracy these days but when i first began to use it, many years ago, it was the only messaging client that i could access on all my platforms, the web and even the terminal etc that i could convince my friends to use for similar reasons so it was initially far more convenient than anything else.
I never cared about at all about the security as its irrelevant to me and while the reasons for initially using it arent really true anymore, i'll keep using it until i cant anymore.