On 06/20/2013 10:08 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > To the Skype promoters, apologists and deniers - I encourage you to > start using, and improving Jitsi - it needs a lot of love but it at > least has a chance of being secure, whereas Skype is beyond repair.
I also want to add to this, that in order to use Jitsi, you need a trustworthy, privacy-oriented SIP service provider [0], to go with it. This means someone that doesn't keep logs, doesn't require real name registration, defaults to secure, and that also offers features to help defend against traffic analysis and mass metadata gathering [1]. This is exactly what we have been working on at Guardian Project with our Open Secure Telephony Network [2] project and our public beta/testbed service at OStel.co. The base service platform we are using is Kamailio [3], which is a project that should be as equally supported as Jitsi. Ultimately, our goal is not to replace one single service with another single service, but rather to enable every user, organization, NGO, collective, cooperative, etc to run their own service, or at least have a variety of hosted service operators that run at a known quality and standard for privacy-oriented voice and video communications. +n [0] OSTel privacy policy https://ostel.co/privacy [1] more technical discussion here about our approach compared to a typical voice operator: https://guardianproject.info/2013/06/12/carrier-grade-verizon-and-the-nsa/ [2] OSTN/OStel source https://github.com/guardianproject/OSTel [3] Kamailio - Open Source SIP Server - http://www.kamailio.org/ -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
