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I would suggest using an XMPP-based service, and then using a client like Pidgin with an Off The Record (OTR) plugin.
OTR has nothing to do with encryption. All it says is "pretty please don't save my conversation." The only way for fully encrypted conversations is to use a plugin that encrypts messages themselves, or use an ecrypted P2P IM network.
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OTR has nothing to do with encryption. All it says is "pretty please don't save my conversation." The only way for fully encrypted conversations is to use a plugin that encrypts messages themselves, or use an ecrypted P2P IM network.
OTR is all about encryption, it is a plugin which encrypts the messages themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
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I would suggest using an XMPP-based service, and then using a client like Pidgin with an Off The Record (OTR) plugin.
OTR has nothing to do with encryption. All it says is "pretty please don't save my conversation." The only way for fully encrypted conversations is to use a plugin that encrypts messages themselves, or use an ecrypted P2P IM network.
So, what's the most convenient way to IM with end-to-end encryption? I don't like the idea of it being possible for an intermediate to scan through my private messages.
Possibly Skype? It does have end to end encryption but this is hard to validate independently.
I wonder what the political forces behind this are, because I'd like to think that the engineers that implemented it understood that a) it will do nothing to stop piracy, and b) it will reduce usage of Live Messenger
I'm a regular WLM user and this has been happening for years, I've seen innocuous links to small websites blocked too. It's rare that links are blocked but I wouldn't be so quick to suggest this is intentional on the part of Microsoft. The frequency at which a new URL is being shared could have triggered some sort of automatic blocking system because it's assumed to be a worm? > Apparently, the company is actively mo…
Facebook does this as well. (Or at least, they did until The Pirate Bay changed it's TLD to `.se`) You could argue that it's for the user's security. Torrent sites do have a lot of sketchy cruft.
> You could argue that it's for the user's security Who would believe that argument?
So, what's the most convenient way to IM with end-to-end encryption? I don't like the idea of it being possible for an intermediate to scan through my private messages.
I wonder what the political forces behind this are, because I'd like to think that the engineers that implemented it understood that a) it will do nothing to stop piracy, and b) it will reduce usage of Live Messenger
To be fair, there is a lot of malware masquerading as The Lion King.torrent. They may not care about the piracy aspect; they may just want their users to have less malware on their computers, especially since Windows machines seem to be a prime target for botnets.