> > It seems to be a law of nature, immutable by mutual desire, that > every community you might want to interact with will choose a different > messaging app. >
Indeed. Which means that in practice you're only as secure as the app your family, friend and co-workers use. And then when you bring up how they should use encryption, you're instantly the "security conspiracy tin foil hat wearing person who has a Faraday Cage in their basement" person of the group. Off The Record encryption protocol is fairly widely supported at least as far as messaging clients go. There is ChatSecure for iOS and there are Android, Linux/Unix and OSX clients as well. I'm really curious now if a couple of different OTR supported clients on different OS' could actually have an encrypted group chat _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
