On 09/30/2014 12:39 PM, Bethany wrote: > I'm mostly a lurker, too, but I'll remark that Firechat can't be bogus: > its use caught on in a massive way, and the ease of use and the P2P > connection feature is playing an active part in a community's SUCCESSFUL > self-organization in the face of real repression. While you're > absolutely right that an app can't call itself anonymous if it collects > Google Play information on its users, the question about whether the app > allows perfect anonymity isn't as important as: does the app allow > perfect anonymity from Beijing?
Well.. you can't be sure if you don't have the source code ;) (see below). > I'd also point out that I believe Firechat is open source. And on > Github: https://github.com/firebase/firechat I think that's a different app [1]. There is no mention for source code on the official website. [2] [1] https://firechat.firebaseapp.com/ [2] https://opengarden.com/firechat -- Nikos Roussos http://www.roussos.cc
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