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just like ... Skype?

Skype is getting more and more useless with every iteration. Encryption is gone, file transfer first stopped to recognize direct LAN connection between clients and now some of the files get stored "in the cloud", the design is just atrocious, advertisements annoying (thank gods for workarounds). And yesterday my 5.9 installation stopped working, so I have to put up with that.

Encryption is gone

Do you have a link to that? The last time I looked at the news, Skype was using SSL to servers so Microsoft could see the data transferred, and while that's not ideal, it's still very different from your implication that everything in the protocol is now transmitted in the clear.

Sure, first websearch result [1] , although I was talking about EFF's evaluation [2]. Of course there is -some- encryption, not plaintext, but it was better before Microsoft came in, or so I hear. But I worded the original post poorly, sorry about that.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...

[2] https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

I think he's talking about government backdoors, whereas a service like MegaChat could potentially offer true end-to-end chat..

However this doesn't seem to be the case as A. you're unable to upload your own public key, and B it's still client-side JS. A subpoena would force them to pass on your session logs, encryption keys, etc.

Hopefully not (although possibly) just like Skype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security#Eavesdropping_b...

Presumably the encryption of open source SIP clients and Firefox hello are more trustworthy(?).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683593

Skype? Microsoft has systematically ruined skype. It used to be a great service, though.

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