Password protect iMessges on Desktop

I want to password protect iMessges on my desktop (and on my iPod too). I looked into file vault for the desktop, but it locks up the entire disk. I just want to lock up the application. I went through iMessages very carefully and found nothing on this. Very surpring.

it really is the wrong way of going about multi user osx and windows and the likes support many user profiles one can login to and get all the data, access and users settings from the user one login with
you can get various 3th party password and this and password on that but mostly they work poorly because it goes against how the system was made to work

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