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Interesting that they used Google+ and Twitter for this meetup, when those tools are proprietary in nature, and have DRM features.

inb4 Alt 4 vid conf.: Jitsi, Ekiga, QuteCom/WengoPhone, iptel, etc.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/41970/what-floss-skype-altern...

Obviously, most of us here use IRC with OTR or SILC

But I agree with jfasi. You have a better chance making a drama video playing with pathos (maybe have a pet or child be affected by the issue of breaking DRM), than this discussion barely anyone saw. Maybe they should have announced this earlier?

Thanks thomasfromcdnjs, for the link.



> IRC with OTR

I'm terribly sorry for off-topic, but it really interests me. I've never seen OTR on IRC or XMPP except for private (one-to-one) conversations. Could you go into some details, please?

As far as I know, OTR only works with two parties talking in private. Is there a mature, cryptographer-vetted multiparty OTR protocol with ready-to-use desktop software implementations out there?

The properties that interest me are secure authentication, acceptable forward secrecy and deniable encryption. I.e. I want to be sure I'm chatting with my friends, and if they don't keep logs what was said would stay only between us and the only thing external observer could say is that we had exchanged some information.




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