[liberationtech] How Has Cryptocat Helped You in 2012?

2012-12-24 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Dear LibTech, I'm trying to compile a few stories as to how Cryptocat has been helpful to people in 2012. I've posted some queries on social media (our Twitter and Facebook) and was just hoping that maybe I'd also get some stories from LibTech. I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't get any stories

Re: [liberationtech] Why Skype (real-time) is losing out to WeChat (async)

2012-12-24 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info wrote: Why is a text messaging/push-to-talk model winning out over an instant messaging/VoIP model, in places like Africa and Asia, regardless of known increased risk and decreased privacy and safety? I think that

Re: [liberationtech] How secure is Bitlbee?

2012-12-24 Thread StealthMonger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uncle Zzzen unclezz...@gmail.com writes: Lately I've discovered http://www.bitlbee.org/ and I feel a lot more comfy with it. My question is, how secure is Bitlbee compared to Jitsi or Pidgin? bitlbee appears to be a low-latency, connection-based

Re: [liberationtech] How secure is Bitlbee?

2012-12-24 Thread Uncle Zzzen
Thanks. Traffic analysis is indeed a concern, but it seems to me that if there's a way to solve this for jabber, it should be on the server side (perhaps even a tor-like network of jabber servers bouncing onionized messages between each other). Still - as jabber clients go - I don't see how this

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/12/12 23:25, Eric S Johnson wrote: Secure deletion is a problem we could solve in software, by encrypting the data and then destroying the key to render the data unrecoverable, *if* we had a few bytes of persistent, erasable storage in which