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I would also like an open standard but I had to laugh at the final sentence of the EFF statement: > To be clear, even the earlier [off-the-record] setting was
by plywoodtrees 13y ago
I would also like an open standard but I had to laugh at the final sentence of the EFF statement:
> To be clear, even the earlier [off-the-record] setting was far from perfect from a privacy perspective: disabling chat history only kept the logged messages out of your Gmail account, and didn't prevent other users, or Google itself, from keeping a record of the conversation.
How on earth would you expect an open protocol to prevent the other keeping a record of a conversation? It's like asking for perfect DRM with open clients.
- claudius 13y agoThey could[0] implement some client side actual OTR[1], at least blocking Google from keeping the clear-text message. No idea how they would want to force the intended recipient of the message not to store it, though. [0] In theory with infinite resources and time. Maybe. [1] Or any other sort of encryption.