Subj : Re: w/o the govt, fed or China listening
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Jan 15 2025 12:19 pm

  Re: Re: w/o the govt, fed or China listening
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Wed Jan 15 2025 06:46 am

 > I loved OTR, played with it and Trillian for some time. If memory
 > serves, OTR was a per-client thing and not a per-protocol thing - I
 > thought you could run OTR on any protocol that Trillian used?

OTR is a client-side protocol, but in practice only XMPP people uses it. Well, XMPP people and a smaller number of IRC people.

 >
 >  Ar> That requires users to manage their credentials (which is a bad
 >  Ar> drawback because people is no longer cabale of using username/password
 >  Ar> combinations) but is way more interoperable than the crap most people
 >  Ar> is using.
 >
 > Can't you just use Facebook Auth?    :)

I can use Facebook auth, but it has two issues. Issue one is that users still need to manage their credentials. Issue two is we were talking about privacy conscious services.


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