I think Moxie hit the nail on the head especially with the two trends he
pointed out. A team of three developers can leverage global low-latency
infrastructure if they know how, while WhatsApp's entire engineering team
is stuck implementing *unusually* bad crypto.
NK
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:
On 12/22/2012 04:49 AM, Brian Conley wrote:
> That said, thus far, neither redphone nor those over listed rivals skype
> or Google hangouts quality of transmission.
Depends. RedPhone's audio quality is (in general) substantially better
on Android than Skype's has been. Skype's desktop audio qu
You should also include Guardian's projects:
Gibberbot
Ostel/ostn no?
That said, thus far, neither redphone nor those over listed rivals skype or
Google hangouts quality of transmission.
This is not meant to detract from them, its more a question, is a revenue
based model the only option to ensu
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
>
> Perhaps it would be worth an open letter?
>
>
This sounds like a great idea. I'm sure the EFF and many others would be on
board. There's no shortage of organizations that have gone hoarse warning
against Skype.
> All the best,
> Jake
>
Christopher Soghoian:
> Jake,
>
> The section of Skype's privacy policy that describes (with no real detail)
> the assistance they provide to law enforcement agencies is exactly the same
> text that was present before Microsoft bought the company.
>
What was it before it was sold to Ebay or what
I wonder if the same team is still working on skype.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Christopher Soghoian
wrote:
> Unfortunately, I've not been able to learn anything from my existing
> contacts at Microsoft about Skype. That part of the company seems to be
> continuing their long practice of
Skype is not only dangerous from a security by policy perspective, but is
also dangerous from a security by design perspective — whereas they promise
that conversations are encrypted, due to their closed-source nature this
encryption cannot be studied or verified.
There are certain other projects
Jake,
The section of Skype's privacy policy that describes (with no real detail)
the assistance they provide to law enforcement agencies is exactly the same
text that was present before Microsoft bought the company.
(See, for example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100701074213/http://www.skype.com
That's helpful to have it spelled out so clearly. Thanks for posting it,
Jake. Frank
> Original Message
> Subject: [liberationtech] Skype redux
> From: Jacob Appelbaum
> Date: Fri, December 21, 2012 2:49 am
> To: "liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu"
Hi,
In light of the recent thread on journalism, I wanted to share this link
about Skype:
https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/dec/china-listening-skype-microsoft-assumes-you-approve
"With 250 million monthly connected users, Skype is one of the most
popular services for making phone calls as wel
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