-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16/09/13 07:59, Brian Conley wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2013 8:19 PM, "Michael Rogers" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > >> On 14/09/13 11:03, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: >>> The user have only those two platform, a browser and a mobile >>> phone with downloadable apps. Everything else requiring to >>> install an application over a desktop computer is IMHO >>> destinated to be a total failure. >> >> So Skype, AIM and BitTorrent are total failures? > > Sure, from the perspective of privacy and security, at least re > Skype and AIM. > > If Fabio isn't talking about privacy and security I must have > misunderstood his entire post.
Unless I misunderstood, Fabio wasn't claiming that desktop apps are a failure from a privacy or security perspective, but that users won't install them, therefore we must focus on browsers and mobile apps. I gave three counter-examples of popular desktop apps. I wasn't trying to make any claims about their privacy or security, just their popularity. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSNt5DAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMLrgH/0JlOxaRJdVSnY8EVQddvqqM GNtJHRS3K3dSYyWH0EoHo1fPZoHu6K6HDgJVqF6RUIMhfQZ9Syz9eIfrVCXamyS7 OC44CexMZ+Ncczun30bCIvLlAWYGmSsW5dlPgnRjIhM7treh7YxNJYzByOpD/sDN rk7wYheHQr4fdOPnu07/e3nEYQPxKGhaFwU/zvRItt8JOzQ2Kujr3i1gO/XJI2fv t8y0J8qxlgtdgcngGo5v5Ja5vmq6S1SsYpqZOt6pQQKV9kjKSIAEmg20qL3g/7LH klf+emtyk1irb8poaKtBSsfdxkDKZ2QYJfZ6Hs+fescrmzFUdk8gCIX80BdW9WI= =mC7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
