Understand your point Frank, but how is this very different from Chrome and Google+ Hangouts, or Windows OS and Microsoft Skype? And of these three, Google, Microsoft or Mozilla, which would you prefer to trust with your video comunications?
---- On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:25:00 +1100 Kim Holburn wrote ---- >Just what you want eh? The browser you are using to browse the web, to do >business, banking, in control of your camera and microphone. > >On 2015/Feb/25, at 2:43 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote: > >>> From: [email protected] >>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:53:16 +1100 >>> >>> Not everyone thinks HTTP/2 and SPDY is such a good thing. It has privacy >>> issues among others. >> >> Maybe a little harsh matey? HTTP/2 is the latest Internet Engineering >> Steering Group spec >> we have, including regarding privacy. Large numbers of people have >> contributed to HTTP/2 >> but the most >> active participants are volunteer engineers from projects like Firefox, >> Twitter, Microsoft's HTTP stack, Curl and Akamai, as well as HTTP >> implementers in languages like Python, Ruby, NodeJS. >> https://github.com/http2/http2.github.io/blob/master/faq/index.md >> >> So it's been developed by volunteers, and then incorporated into Firefox >> also by volunteers. >> >> The alternative is going back to Google's SPDY, which even Google is >> ditching for HTTP/2 in this month's and all future versions of Chrome. And >> finally all web browsers now use HTTP/2 over secure TLS implementations and >> so sessions are much more secure than previous HTTP implementations. Sure, >> it's not perfect, but it is free, and, the volunteers are certainly trying. >> >> In terms of the Mozilla Hello Conversations Beta resource, it'll be >> interesting to see how this Skype-like feature takes off. It could be a real >> bonus, the first global communications system built directly into browsers. >> I believe this version of Conversations also shares Wi-Fi and the signals of >> mobile >> devices for enhanced geolocation services and provides support for context >> aware applications. And, this Firefox Hello free video-chat service also >> allows users >> to talk to contacts on Firefox, Chrome or Opera. Apparently in future >> Mozilla is adding more features to the Conversations live video chat project >> such as screen sharing and web-based collaboration. >> >> So altogether, a pretty fair open source effort by thousands of world >> volunteers one might say? >> >> Cheers, >> Stephen >> >> >> > >-- >Kim Holburn >IT Network & Security Consultant >T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 >mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn >skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
