Now that we're all video conference, all the time, @yaelwrites's writeup on the privacy concerns of using the commercial chat tools is very timely. https://onezero.medium.com/slack-zoom-google-hangouts-are-your-remote-work-apps-spying-on-you-cf1e33809cf7
@th @yaelwrites
Haven't done extensive research, but are there any recommendable open-source protocols/implementations (likely based on webRTC)?
Quick search yields https://jitsi.org/ (and a ton of middleware)
@kavbojka @s_ol @yaelwrites jitsi does seem to be the most developed open source group video tool, although without e2e. signal is excellent for 1:1 video and group chats, although I much prefer a real keyboard for messaging and signal desktop has issues, as described by Harlo in her hack.lu talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vax5vLSUUw
The EFF has a similar piece on privacy risks of remote collaboration tools with links into their surveillance self-defense site for more security tips: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
@th
Please, what is e2e?
I’ll need to check out Signal, no experience of it yet. How would you compare Signal and jitsi, use-case-wise? UX-wise?
@kavbojka @s_ol @yaelwrites