"It works with all your old contacts." Oh boy, is that being touted as a feature?
Travis On Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 6:18 AM carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: > Oh, at the last Tor developer meeting I heard that this project > was looking for a new name since it doesn't make sense to wear > "Tor" in it as if that was a quality endorsement. > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:43:58PM -0400, Kate Krauss wrote: > > Today, Tor is releasing a beta version of Tor Messenger. Compared to > > Adium or Pidgin (you can use your jabber address and all your > > contacts)--it's pretty easy to use and much safer. It's in beta, > > Thanks for developing a tool that is less bad than Adium or Pidgin, > but we should really move away from federation and its terrible > lack of protection for the social graph. > > With Ricochet becoming more widespread as the *real* Tor way > of doing IM, end-to-end using hidden services, why should an > old-fashioned OTR/XMPP client/server less secure tool be > promoted as *THE* Tor Messenger? It's just highly inappropriate. > > I had suggested to call it "WAM" as in "Wrong Architecture > Messenger". Please let me know which more appropriate name I > can feature on http://secushare.org/comparison as a forth > best practice recommendation... *after* Ricochet, Tox and > Retroshare. > > Thanks. > > Sorry for trolling, but I can't help saying things. > > > -- > E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: > http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ > irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX > https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/ > -- > 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 > compa...@stanford.edu. >
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