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After seeing "off the record" chats synced across browser sessions a few times, I became convinced that Google was storing the chat session on its servers at le
by deepblueocean 13y ago
After seeing "off the record" chats synced across browser sessions a few times, I became convinced that Google was storing the chat session on its servers at least temporarily. I can't help but wonder if this is just a way to remind people that "off the record" really isn't, and nobody should be relying on that particular property.
- Mandatum 13y agoAre you talking about Pidgin + GTalk + OTR Plugin?
- gcr 13y agoThe correct way is for google to be storing encrypted off-the-record chat messages, decrypted by the client in javascript (or however the android client would do it). That way, Google would be able to persist chat history across devices if they share keys, but the stored ciphertext is useless to them. Do we know if they're doing that?
- eli 13y agoThey're almost certainly not doing that. That would be extremely difficult to implement in a way that works in regular browsers without special plugins and is still secure.