Show HN: Free, instant, secure, disposable chat rooms built in Go

Post by knadh » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 10:28 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #22

gnoupi wrote: post #3

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Disposing of the room does remove it and kick everyone out, indeed. And then the link is invalid. Neat. According for the privacy page, it's all living in RAM only, so in theory there is no logging ( https://niltalk.com/pages/privacy ). Guess we can check the code and see for ourselves, of course.

Guess we can check the code and see for ourselves, of course. Alas, you can't really know if the code on Github is actually the same running on their servers.

Post by hiddentao » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 10:36 AM UTC

Post by sgt » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 10:43 AM UTC

Post by gillianseed » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 10:45 AM UTC

knadh wrote: post #34

gnoupi wrote: post #33

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The problem with taking a discussion from a public forum private, is that in the current state, everyone can choose to dispose of the room. As proven in this very thread, it doesn't really work. The idea that everyone can dispose of the room is interesting, but there probably should be an option so that only the creator (or the first to join) can dispose of the room, for such public place cases.

It's actually meant for small group of people to have private conversations and is not really ideal for take a huge public discussion private. The idea of marking a peer the creator or making the first peer an owner complicates the whole privacy and security aspect.

Post by knadh » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 10:49 AM UTC

hiddentao wrote: post #43

Good work. Though I have to say I've seen so many of these web-based "secure, private, anonymous" chat services now, I've lost track. What we need is end-to-end encryption and with an open source client that just has to be downloaded and built/installed once (and in such a way that it's verifiably secure, think reproducible builds).