Le vendredi 08 janvier 2010 à 18:21 -0500, Eugene Kanter a écrit : > Eugen, > > Your explanation makes no sense whatsoever. It is the same as email > client like evolution sending an entire contact list to an email > server upon startup.
Your comparison is not right: Your email client do not support the "presence" feature. By definition, presence means you must inform your contacts about your status. I see 3 possibilities about this regarding privacy: - you turn off presence (e.g. setting it to "offline" in Ekiga, but this is not available yet). It should be possible to add this feature for a low coding cost... I consider implicit for the user to understand, if "offline" is available in the client, other presence's possibilities are not privacy safe. - Adding more features for privacy: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-simple-simple-05#section-2.3 But this is not simple work to implement it and it involves hard work on client, server and usability. - You get rid off the central server and use a new protocol based on peer-to-peer. There is no standard yet for this, but an effort is going on this: http://www.p2psip.org/ This is even more work... Best regards, Yannick > > Eugene. > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Eugen Dedu > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eugene Kanter wrote: > >> Damien, > >> > >> I believe sending contacts out without informing the user is a severe > >> privacy violation. > >> > >> Comments, anyone? > > > > Each contact you have is there because you use it sometimes. And when > > you use it, the server knows that and can potentially store it. So > > hiding the contacts does not reduce your privacy in fact. > > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list -- Me joindre en téléphonie IP / vidéoconférence ? sip:[email protected] Logiciel de VoIP Ekiga : http://www.ekiga.org http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Which_programs_work_with_Ekiga_%3F _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
