Anyone know why it won't run on a Nexus 7 tablet?
Wire – Modern Communications Network
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, they can quote the most advanced encryption algorithm, but you still can't be sure if they have really used it unless they share their code. Bottomline: You either trust them or you don't. One reason for them not sharing the details could be that they want the potential hackers to keep guessing rather than making their life easier (No encrytion is foolproof)
Trust isn't binary. You could perfectly well trust that they're earnest without trusting that they're competent. If that's your position, which is resonable, given enough information you can alleviate some of the competency concerns. That said, given the landscape they're working in, it's hard to trust any commercial entity is genuinely willing and able to keep your communications secure.
>Trust isn't binary.
Exactly.
Transparency in how you secure your shit is basic diligence, then the user trusts that that is accurate and properly implemented. I'd never use a service that didn't do that; just as I have a firefox addon (CipherFox) that shows what cipher a site is on, so if I see, for example, RC4, I know it's secure in name only.
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, much larger than the issue of open-source is that we already have dozens of major communication protocols that are not based on open standards or that do federation (one implies the another). XMPP does OTR for example. And you know, the cool thing about an open standard is that it can have many clients. Throw federation in the mix and then many people will actually find it desirable. Otherwise it's just a matter…
XMPP and OTR are not workable for mobile devices. The protocol structure assumes a consistent background connection that doesn't get killed, something that is relatively cheap to do on the laptops and desktops it was designed for, but is expensive battery wise for mobile devices. Go download an OTR client for iOS, like cryptocat and notice how it pings you after 10 minutes that you have to re-open the app to keep on…
OTR kind of sucks, partly because of what you mentioned.
I'm trying to introduce the Axolotl ratchet (behind TextSecure's security) into XMPP:
The Axolotl ratchet provides true asynchronicity so you don't need to keep the link open forever. You don't even need the other party to be up; the message can be stored on either server and forwarded when the recipient connects, and the recipient will only decrypt the message at this moment. This is what we need.
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#394Am I such an outlier if I use Skype for business, not for leisure? I have clients on three continents and every single one used Skype to communicate about the project. Skype was generally running on every machine as a "watercooler chat"/IRC replacement. Just open groups, give them names and pin them to the sidebar. Done. So I really expected this to be more secure, more portable and LESS designer-driven. Who is even…
Single data point: I open Skype for one occasion: Monday night, gaming with friends that - for the lack of a better term - "don't know better" (I'd prefer TeamSpeak or Mumble for Gaming - or any other voice chat that doesn't require a G+ account really). Skype is slow. Ugly. And worst of all: It shoves ads in my face on multiple levels (popups, banners etc). So far I keep it for this weekly use case, but I hope that…
I've exclusively used Skype for video chat with family (who happened to be in a really infrastructure-poor part of the world) for months - it was by far the only thing that worked, pixelated low-res video notwithstanding. Most of the other clients, e.g. line, gave-up within 30 seconds with errors like "connection is unstable". Getting Skype to connect is a major pain but once it gets going, even though the video sucks, it isn't choppy and the connection doesn't keep dropping.
Also, I never faced any ads with Skype (not sure if that was due to $1.20 balance in my Skype Credit account). The aforementioned calls were over wifi on my side and 2G(?) connections on recipients side, so free.
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is another option - matrix.org is a new open standard for real-time communication (with encryption) in an open, federated ecosystem. That means you can run your own server and encrypt your own data, and the encrypted data can still be sent to other servers in the federation. To your point about open source, if something like this can take off it needs to be fully open and transparent, without fees or central da…
From the homepage: > Send and receive extensible messages with optional end-to-end encryption Why would encryption ever be "optional"?
Because we don't want client implementers to be forced to have to jump through end-to-end crypto hoops if they don't want to. The simplest way to send a message in matrix is:
curl -XPOST -d '{"msgtype":"m.text", "body":"hello world"}' "https://matrix.wherever.com/_matrix/client/api/v1/rooms/$roo...
...and we'd like to keep it that way. But you can always insist on only ever communicating with folks who are on E2E crypto clients if you so desire.
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#397Installed on Android. I went to invite a friend to try it out, there is no invite or share feature. Hope this helps!
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's me!
oh hai. So was what I said correct? When I had money I used to scarf up domain names for any idea I had. Some of them were decent but I don't think I've ever sold a single one. Eventually just let them all expire after holding them for like 6 years.
Yup 100%. Worst case, I could have still turned it around and immediately sold it for 25k. If I was more patient, likely 35k.
To me, ignoring the opportunity cost of the cash itself, it was a ~10k risk. Worth it.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably a typo. ‘Ö’ and ‘O’ a very close on a German keyboard.
perhaps, but in it i detect a New Yorker magazine-style use of the dieresis to separate vowels into syllables that a reader might be inclined to pronouce together as a single sound, e.g.: reëlect for re-elect.
This is the correct interpretation. But it is actually slightly nuanced; I'm such a bad speller that, even as a native English speaking adult of 30 something, I had to look up no one. Wiktionary has noöne as an "alternative spelling" and I do like The New Yorker...
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#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably a typo. ‘Ö’ and ‘O’ a very close on a German keyboard.
Based on past comments I'd expect the author to have the en_US layout (or something entirely different) and probably - now taking a guess here - even without umlauts. I'm German and use en_US here, so for ö I'd need to compose a character manually. Which is probably what was mocked (whether that is right or wrong I do not know - I certainly cannot judge the style of writing of someone in his native language, as a for…
I appreciate the great deal of thought you put into this. I feel like a mini-Internet celebrity of the minute.
You are entirely correct about needing compose to type the symbol, but I use it so rarely, that I just copy-pasted.
It's not an umlaut though, it's a different diacritic called diaeresis. It makes me feel like I'm speaking a more awesome language when I use it.