diff --git a/webclient/index.html b/webclient/index.html
index 085ac58a8..ee77dd2fa 100644
--- a/webclient/index.html
+++ b/webclient/index.html
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     <script type='text/javascript' src='js/jquery-1.8.3.min.js'></script> 
     <script src="js/angular.min.js"></script>
     <script src="js/angular-route.min.js"></script>
+    <script src="js/angular-sanitize.min.js"></script>
     <script type='text/javascript' src='js/ng-infinite-scroll-matrix.js'></script>
     <script src="app.js"></script>
     <script src="app-controller.js"></script>
diff --git a/webclient/js/angular-sanitize.js b/webclient/js/angular-sanitize.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d34522ac8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webclient/js/angular-sanitize.js
@@ -0,0 +1,577 @@
+/**
+ * @license AngularJS v1.2.0
+ * (c) 2010-2012 Google, Inc. http://angularjs.org
+ * License: MIT
+ */
+(function(window, angular, undefined) {'use strict';
+
+var $sanitizeMinErr = angular.$$minErr('$sanitize');
+
+/**
+ * @ngdoc overview
+ * @name ngSanitize
+ * @description
+ *
+ * # ngSanitize
+ *
+ * The `ngSanitize` module provides functionality to sanitize HTML.
+ *
+ * {@installModule sanitize}
+ *
+ * <div doc-module-components="ngSanitize"></div>
+ *
+ * See {@link ngSanitize.$sanitize `$sanitize`} for usage.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * HTML Parser By Misko Hevery (misko@hevery.com)
+ * based on:  HTML Parser By John Resig (ejohn.org)
+ * Original code by Erik Arvidsson, Mozilla Public License
+ * http://erik.eae.net/simplehtmlparser/simplehtmlparser.js
+ *
+ * // Use like so:
+ * htmlParser(htmlString, {
+ *     start: function(tag, attrs, unary) {},
+ *     end: function(tag) {},
+ *     chars: function(text) {},
+ *     comment: function(text) {}
+ * });
+ *
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * @ngdoc service
+ * @name ngSanitize.$sanitize
+ * @function
+ *
+ * @description
+ *   The input is sanitized by parsing the html into tokens. All safe tokens (from a whitelist) are
+ *   then serialized back to properly escaped html string. This means that no unsafe input can make
+ *   it into the returned string, however, since our parser is more strict than a typical browser
+ *   parser, it's possible that some obscure input, which would be recognized as valid HTML by a
+ *   browser, won't make it through the sanitizer.
+ *
+ * @param {string} html Html input.
+ * @returns {string} Sanitized html.
+ *
+ * @example
+   <doc:example module="ngSanitize">
+   <doc:source>
+     <script>
+       function Ctrl($scope, $sce) {
+         $scope.snippet =
+           '<p style="color:blue">an html\n' +
+           '<em onmouseover="this.textContent=\'PWN3D!\'">click here</em>\n' +
+           'snippet</p>';
+         $scope.deliberatelyTrustDangerousSnippet = function() {
+           return $sce.trustAsHtml($scope.snippet);
+         };
+       }
+     </script>
+     <div ng-controller="Ctrl">
+        Snippet: <textarea ng-model="snippet" cols="60" rows="3"></textarea>
+       <table>
+         <tr>
+           <td>Directive</td>
+           <td>How</td>
+           <td>Source</td>
+           <td>Rendered</td>
+         </tr>
+         <tr id="bind-html-with-sanitize">
+           <td>ng-bind-html</td>
+           <td>Automatically uses $sanitize</td>
+           <td><pre>&lt;div ng-bind-html="snippet"&gt;<br/>&lt;/div&gt;</pre></td>
+           <td><div ng-bind-html="snippet"></div></td>
+         </tr>
+         <tr id="bind-html-with-trust">
+           <td>ng-bind-html</td>
+           <td>Bypass $sanitize by explicitly trusting the dangerous value</td>
+           <td>
+           <pre>&lt;div ng-bind-html="deliberatelyTrustDangerousSnippet()"&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
+           </td>
+           <td><div ng-bind-html="deliberatelyTrustDangerousSnippet()"></div></td>
+         </tr>
+         <tr id="bind-default">
+           <td>ng-bind</td>
+           <td>Automatically escapes</td>
+           <td><pre>&lt;div ng-bind="snippet"&gt;<br/>&lt;/div&gt;</pre></td>
+           <td><div ng-bind="snippet"></div></td>
+         </tr>
+       </table>
+       </div>
+   </doc:source>
+   <doc:scenario>
+     it('should sanitize the html snippet by default', function() {
+       expect(using('#bind-html-with-sanitize').element('div').html()).
+         toBe('<p>an html\n<em>click here</em>\nsnippet</p>');
+     });
+
+     it('should inline raw snippet if bound to a trusted value', function() {
+       expect(using('#bind-html-with-trust').element("div").html()).
+         toBe("<p style=\"color:blue\">an html\n" +
+              "<em onmouseover=\"this.textContent='PWN3D!'\">click here</em>\n" +
+              "snippet</p>");
+     });
+
+     it('should escape snippet without any filter', function() {
+       expect(using('#bind-default').element('div').html()).
+         toBe("&lt;p style=\"color:blue\"&gt;an html\n" +
+              "&lt;em onmouseover=\"this.textContent='PWN3D!'\"&gt;click here&lt;/em&gt;\n" +
+              "snippet&lt;/p&gt;");
+     });
+
+     it('should update', function() {
+       input('snippet').enter('new <b onclick="alert(1)">text</b>');
+       expect(using('#bind-html-with-sanitize').element('div').html()).toBe('new <b>text</b>');
+       expect(using('#bind-html-with-trust').element('div').html()).toBe(
+         'new <b onclick="alert(1)">text</b>');
+       expect(using('#bind-default').element('div').html()).toBe(
+         "new &lt;b onclick=\"alert(1)\"&gt;text&lt;/b&gt;");
+     });
+   </doc:scenario>
+   </doc:example>
+ */
+var $sanitize = function(html) {
+  var buf = [];
+    htmlParser(html, htmlSanitizeWriter(buf));
+    return buf.join('');
+};
+
+
+// Regular Expressions for parsing tags and attributes
+var START_TAG_REGEXP =
+       /^<\s*([\w:-]+)((?:\s+[\w:-]+(?:\s*=\s*(?:(?:"[^"]*")|(?:'[^']*')|[^>\s]+))?)*)\s*(\/?)\s*>/,
+  END_TAG_REGEXP = /^<\s*\/\s*([\w:-]+)[^>]*>/,
+  ATTR_REGEXP = /([\w:-]+)(?:\s*=\s*(?:(?:"((?:[^"])*)")|(?:'((?:[^'])*)')|([^>\s]+)))?/g,
+  BEGIN_TAG_REGEXP = /^</,
+  BEGING_END_TAGE_REGEXP = /^<\s*\//,
+  COMMENT_REGEXP = /<!--(.*?)-->/g,
+  DOCTYPE_REGEXP = /<!DOCTYPE([^>]*?)>/i,
+  CDATA_REGEXP = /<!\[CDATA\[(.*?)]]>/g,
+  URI_REGEXP = /^((ftp|https?):\/\/|mailto:|tel:|#)/i,
+  // Match everything outside of normal chars and " (quote character)
+  NON_ALPHANUMERIC_REGEXP = /([^\#-~| |!])/g;
+
+
+// Good source of info about elements and attributes
+// http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#semantics
+// http://simon.html5.org/html-elements
+
+// Safe Void Elements - HTML5
+// http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#void-elements
+var voidElements = makeMap("area,br,col,hr,img,wbr");
+
+// Elements that you can, intentionally, leave open (and which close themselves)
+// http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#optional-tags
+var optionalEndTagBlockElements = makeMap("colgroup,dd,dt,li,p,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,tr"),
+    optionalEndTagInlineElements = makeMap("rp,rt"),
+    optionalEndTagElements = angular.extend({},
+                                            optionalEndTagInlineElements,
+                                            optionalEndTagBlockElements);
+
+// Safe Block Elements - HTML5
+var blockElements = angular.extend({}, optionalEndTagBlockElements, makeMap("address,article," +
+        "aside,blockquote,caption,center,del,dir,div,dl,figure,figcaption,footer,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5," +
+        "h6,header,hgroup,hr,ins,map,menu,nav,ol,pre,script,section,table,ul"));
+
+// Inline Elements - HTML5
+var inlineElements = angular.extend({}, optionalEndTagInlineElements, makeMap("a,abbr,acronym,b," +
+        "bdi,bdo,big,br,cite,code,del,dfn,em,font,i,img,ins,kbd,label,map,mark,q,ruby,rp,rt,s," +
+        "samp,small,span,strike,strong,sub,sup,time,tt,u,var"));
+
+
+// Special Elements (can contain anything)
+var specialElements = makeMap("script,style");
+
+var validElements = angular.extend({},
+                                   voidElements,
+                                   blockElements,
+                                   inlineElements,
+                                   optionalEndTagElements);
+
+//Attributes that have href and hence need to be sanitized
+var uriAttrs = makeMap("background,cite,href,longdesc,src,usemap");
+var validAttrs = angular.extend({}, uriAttrs, makeMap(
+    'abbr,align,alt,axis,bgcolor,border,cellpadding,cellspacing,class,clear,'+
+    'color,cols,colspan,compact,coords,dir,face,headers,height,hreflang,hspace,'+
+    'ismap,lang,language,nohref,nowrap,rel,rev,rows,rowspan,rules,'+
+    'scope,scrolling,shape,span,start,summary,target,title,type,'+
+    'valign,value,vspace,width'));
+
+function makeMap(str) {
+  var obj = {}, items = str.split(','), i;
+  for (i = 0; i < items.length; i++) obj[items[i]] = true;
+  return obj;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * @example
+ * htmlParser(htmlString, {
+ *     start: function(tag, attrs, unary) {},
+ *     end: function(tag) {},
+ *     chars: function(text) {},
+ *     comment: function(text) {}
+ * });
+ *
+ * @param {string} html string
+ * @param {object} handler
+ */
+function htmlParser( html, handler ) {
+  var index, chars, match, stack = [], last = html;
+  stack.last = function() { return stack[ stack.length - 1 ]; };
+
+  while ( html ) {
+    chars = true;
+
+    // Make sure we're not in a script or style element
+    if ( !stack.last() || !specialElements[ stack.last() ] ) {
+
+      // Comment
+      if ( html.indexOf("<!--") === 0 ) {
+        // comments containing -- are not allowed unless they terminate the comment
+        index = html.indexOf("--", 4);
+
+        if ( index >= 0 && html.lastIndexOf("-->", index) === index) {
+          if (handler.comment) handler.comment( html.substring( 4, index ) );
+          html = html.substring( index + 3 );
+          chars = false;
+        }
+      // DOCTYPE
+      } else if ( DOCTYPE_REGEXP.test(html) ) {
+        match = html.match( DOCTYPE_REGEXP );
+
+        if ( match ) {
+          html = html.replace( match[0] , '');
+          chars = false;
+        }
+      // end tag
+      } else if ( BEGING_END_TAGE_REGEXP.test(html) ) {
+        match = html.match( END_TAG_REGEXP );
+
+        if ( match ) {
+          html = html.substring( match[0].length );
+          match[0].replace( END_TAG_REGEXP, parseEndTag );
+          chars = false;
+        }
+
+      // start tag
+      } else if ( BEGIN_TAG_REGEXP.test(html) ) {
+        match = html.match( START_TAG_REGEXP );
+
+        if ( match ) {
+          html = html.substring( match[0].length );
+          match[0].replace( START_TAG_REGEXP, parseStartTag );
+          chars = false;
+        }
+      }
+
+      if ( chars ) {
+        index = html.indexOf("<");
+
+        var text = index < 0 ? html : html.substring( 0, index );
+        html = index < 0 ? "" : html.substring( index );
+
+        if (handler.chars) handler.chars( decodeEntities(text) );
+      }
+
+    } else {
+      html = html.replace(new RegExp("(.*)<\\s*\\/\\s*" + stack.last() + "[^>]*>", 'i'),
+        function(all, text){
+          text = text.replace(COMMENT_REGEXP, "$1").replace(CDATA_REGEXP, "$1");
+
+          if (handler.chars) handler.chars( decodeEntities(text) );
+
+          return "";
+      });
+
+      parseEndTag( "", stack.last() );
+    }
+
+    if ( html == last ) {
+      throw $sanitizeMinErr('badparse', "The sanitizer was unable to parse the following block " +
+                                        "of html: {0}", html);
+    }
+    last = html;
+  }
+
+  // Clean up any remaining tags
+  parseEndTag();
+
+  function parseStartTag( tag, tagName, rest, unary ) {
+    tagName = angular.lowercase(tagName);
+    if ( blockElements[ tagName ] ) {
+      while ( stack.last() && inlineElements[ stack.last() ] ) {
+        parseEndTag( "", stack.last() );
+      }
+    }
+
+    if ( optionalEndTagElements[ tagName ] && stack.last() == tagName ) {
+      parseEndTag( "", tagName );
+    }
+
+    unary = voidElements[ tagName ] || !!unary;
+
+    if ( !unary )
+      stack.push( tagName );
+
+    var attrs = {};
+
+    rest.replace(ATTR_REGEXP,
+      function(match, name, doubleQuotedValue, singleQuotedValue, unquotedValue) {
+        var value = doubleQuotedValue
+          || singleQuotedValue
+          || unquotedValue
+          || '';
+
+        attrs[name] = decodeEntities(value);
+    });
+    if (handler.start) handler.start( tagName, attrs, unary );
+  }
+
+  function parseEndTag( tag, tagName ) {
+    var pos = 0, i;
+    tagName = angular.lowercase(tagName);
+    if ( tagName )
+      // Find the closest opened tag of the same type
+      for ( pos = stack.length - 1; pos >= 0; pos-- )
+        if ( stack[ pos ] == tagName )
+          break;
+
+    if ( pos >= 0 ) {
+      // Close all the open elements, up the stack
+      for ( i = stack.length - 1; i >= pos; i-- )
+        if (handler.end) handler.end( stack[ i ] );
+
+      // Remove the open elements from the stack
+      stack.length = pos;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * decodes all entities into regular string
+ * @param value
+ * @returns {string} A string with decoded entities.
+ */
+var hiddenPre=document.createElement("pre");
+function decodeEntities(value) {
+  hiddenPre.innerHTML=value.replace(/</g,"&lt;");
+  return hiddenPre.innerText || hiddenPre.textContent || '';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Escapes all potentially dangerous characters, so that the
+ * resulting string can be safely inserted into attribute or
+ * element text.
+ * @param value
+ * @returns escaped text
+ */
+function encodeEntities(value) {
+  return value.
+    replace(/&/g, '&amp;').
+    replace(NON_ALPHANUMERIC_REGEXP, function(value){
+      return '&#' + value.charCodeAt(0) + ';';
+    }).
+    replace(/</g, '&lt;').
+    replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
+}
+
+/**
+ * create an HTML/XML writer which writes to buffer
+ * @param {Array} buf use buf.jain('') to get out sanitized html string
+ * @returns {object} in the form of {
+ *     start: function(tag, attrs, unary) {},
+ *     end: function(tag) {},
+ *     chars: function(text) {},
+ *     comment: function(text) {}
+ * }
+ */
+function htmlSanitizeWriter(buf){
+  var ignore = false;
+  var out = angular.bind(buf, buf.push);
+  return {
+    start: function(tag, attrs, unary){
+      tag = angular.lowercase(tag);
+      if (!ignore && specialElements[tag]) {
+        ignore = tag;
+      }
+      if (!ignore && validElements[tag] === true) {
+        out('<');
+        out(tag);
+        angular.forEach(attrs, function(value, key){
+          var lkey=angular.lowercase(key);
+          if (validAttrs[lkey]===true && (uriAttrs[lkey]!==true || value.match(URI_REGEXP))) {
+            out(' ');
+            out(key);
+            out('="');
+            out(encodeEntities(value));
+            out('"');
+          }
+        });
+        out(unary ? '/>' : '>');
+      }
+    },
+    end: function(tag){
+        tag = angular.lowercase(tag);
+        if (!ignore && validElements[tag] === true) {
+          out('</');
+          out(tag);
+          out('>');
+        }
+        if (tag == ignore) {
+          ignore = false;
+        }
+      },
+    chars: function(chars){
+        if (!ignore) {
+          out(encodeEntities(chars));
+        }
+      }
+  };
+}
+
+
+// define ngSanitize module and register $sanitize service
+angular.module('ngSanitize', []).value('$sanitize', $sanitize);
+
+/* global htmlSanitizeWriter: false */
+
+/**
+ * @ngdoc filter
+ * @name ngSanitize.filter:linky
+ * @function
+ *
+ * @description
+ * Finds links in text input and turns them into html links. Supports http/https/ftp/mailto and
+ * plain email address links.
+ *
+ * Requires the {@link ngSanitize `ngSanitize`} module to be installed.
+ *
+ * @param {string} text Input text.
+ * @param {string} target Window (_blank|_self|_parent|_top) or named frame to open links in.
+ * @returns {string} Html-linkified text.
+ *
+ * @usage
+   <span ng-bind-html="linky_expression | linky"></span>
+ *
+ * @example
+   <doc:example module="ngSanitize">
+     <doc:source>
+       <script>
+         function Ctrl($scope) {
+           $scope.snippet =
+             'Pretty text with some links:\n'+
+             'http://angularjs.org/,\n'+
+             'mailto:us@somewhere.org,\n'+
+             'another@somewhere.org,\n'+
+             'and one more: ftp://127.0.0.1/.';
+           $scope.snippetWithTarget = 'http://angularjs.org/';
+         }
+       </script>
+       <div ng-controller="Ctrl">
+       Snippet: <textarea ng-model="snippet" cols="60" rows="3"></textarea>
+       <table>
+         <tr>
+           <td>Filter</td>
+           <td>Source</td>
+           <td>Rendered</td>
+         </tr>
+         <tr id="linky-filter">
+           <td>linky filter</td>
+           <td>
+             <pre>&lt;div ng-bind-html="snippet | linky"&gt;<br>&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
+           </td>
+           <td>
+             <div ng-bind-html="snippet | linky"></div>
+           </td>
+         </tr>
+         <tr id="linky-target">
+          <td>linky target</td>
+          <td>
+            <pre>&lt;div ng-bind-html="snippetWithTarget | linky:'_blank'"&gt;<br>&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
+          </td>
+          <td>
+            <div ng-bind-html="snippetWithTarget | linky:'_blank'"></div>
+          </td>
+         </tr>
+         <tr id="escaped-html">
+           <td>no filter</td>
+           <td><pre>&lt;div ng-bind="snippet"&gt;<br>&lt;/div&gt;</pre></td>
+           <td><div ng-bind="snippet"></div></td>
+         </tr>
+       </table>
+     </doc:source>
+     <doc:scenario>
+       it('should linkify the snippet with urls', function() {
+         expect(using('#linky-filter').binding('snippet | linky')).
+           toBe('Pretty text with some links:&#10;' +
+                '<a href="http://angularjs.org/">http://angularjs.org/</a>,&#10;' +
+                '<a href="mailto:us@somewhere.org">us@somewhere.org</a>,&#10;' +
+                '<a href="mailto:another@somewhere.org">another@somewhere.org</a>,&#10;' +
+                'and one more: <a href="ftp://127.0.0.1/">ftp://127.0.0.1/</a>.');
+       });
+
+       it ('should not linkify snippet without the linky filter', function() {
+         expect(using('#escaped-html').binding('snippet')).
+           toBe("Pretty text with some links:\n" +
+                "http://angularjs.org/,\n" +
+                "mailto:us@somewhere.org,\n" +
+                "another@somewhere.org,\n" +
+                "and one more: ftp://127.0.0.1/.");
+       });
+
+       it('should update', function() {
+         input('snippet').enter('new http://link.');
+         expect(using('#linky-filter').binding('snippet | linky')).
+           toBe('new <a href="http://link">http://link</a>.');
+         expect(using('#escaped-html').binding('snippet')).toBe('new http://link.');
+       });
+
+       it('should work with the target property', function() {
+        expect(using('#linky-target').binding("snippetWithTarget | linky:'_blank'")).
+          toBe('<a target="_blank" href="http://angularjs.org/">http://angularjs.org/</a>');
+       });
+     </doc:scenario>
+   </doc:example>
+ */
+angular.module('ngSanitize').filter('linky', function() {
+  var LINKY_URL_REGEXP =
+        /((ftp|https?):\/\/|(mailto:)?[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@)\S*[^\s.;,(){}<>]/,
+      MAILTO_REGEXP = /^mailto:/;
+
+  return function(text, target) {
+    if (!text) return text;
+    var match;
+    var raw = text;
+    var html = [];
+    // TODO(vojta): use $sanitize instead
+    var writer = htmlSanitizeWriter(html);
+    var url;
+    var i;
+    var properties = {};
+    if (angular.isDefined(target)) {
+      properties.target = target;
+    }
+    while ((match = raw.match(LINKY_URL_REGEXP))) {
+      // We can not end in these as they are sometimes found at the end of the sentence
+      url = match[0];
+      // if we did not match ftp/http/mailto then assume mailto
+      if (match[2] == match[3]) url = 'mailto:' + url;
+      i = match.index;
+      writer.chars(raw.substr(0, i));
+      properties.href = url;
+      writer.start('a', properties);
+      writer.chars(match[0].replace(MAILTO_REGEXP, ''));
+      writer.end('a');
+      raw = raw.substring(i + match[0].length);
+    }
+    writer.chars(raw);
+    return html.join('');
+  };
+});
+
+
+})(window, window.angular);
diff --git a/webclient/room/room-controller.js b/webclient/room/room-controller.js
index fa5023657..86f1379f7 100644
--- a/webclient/room/room-controller.js
+++ b/webclient/room/room-controller.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
 */
 
-angular.module('RoomController', [])
+angular.module('RoomController', ['ngSanitize'])
 
 .controller('RoomController', ['$scope', '$http', '$timeout', '$routeParams', '$location', 'matrixService', 'eventStreamService', 'eventHandlerService',
                                function($scope, $http, $timeout, $routeParams, $location, matrixService, eventStreamService, eventHandlerService) {
diff --git a/webclient/room/room.html b/webclient/room/room.html
index 5712ce9b4..2726188b4 100644
--- a/webclient/room/room.html
+++ b/webclient/room/room.html
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
                 </td>
                 <td ng-class="!msg.content.membership_target ? (msg.content.msgtype === 'm.emote' ? 'emote text' : 'text') : ''">
                     <div class="bubble">
-                        {{ msg.content.msgtype === "m.emote" ? ("* " + (members[msg.user_id].displayname || msg.user_id) + " " + msg.content.body) : "" }}
-                        {{ msg.content.msgtype === "m.text" ? msg.content.body : "" }}
+                        <span ng-hide='msg.content.msgtype !== "m.emote"' ng-bind-html="'* ' + (members[msg.user_id].displayname || msg.user_id) + ' ' + msg.content.body | linky:'_blank'"/>
+                        <span ng-hide='msg.content.msgtype !== "m.text"' ng-bind-html="msg.content.body | linky:'_blank'"/>
                         <img class="image" ng-hide='msg.content.msgtype !== "m.image"' ng-src="{{ msg.content.url }}" alt="{{ msg.content.body }}"/>
                     </div>
                 </td>