Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls

Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by jasonmorton on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:09PM (#20646333)

Can anyone recommend a good open-source chat and call solution? I'm looking for something I can run on my own server to support friends and family, with an iOS and Android app. It doesn't have to support more than one or two video calls at a time. I figure this is sadly the long term solution.

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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by 317070 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:19PM (#20647088)

I use jit.si as replacement for Skype. It's in browser, encrypted, p2p and EFF approved.

I don't know if they have apps, but as far as I know their server code is on github.

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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by est31 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:00PM (#20647475)

Note that jit.si is only encrypted in the sense that Skype is encrypted, aka transport stream encrypted. The server needs access to the decrypted video stream so that it can do split screen. See this thread for details: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409

I personally use jitsi because it is FLOSS software and it's less likely to send conversation contents to the NSA or other dragnet surveillance entities. But it's not end to end encrypted.

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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by 317070 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:50PM (#20647978)

Aha, I did not know that! On the plus side, you could set up your own server, having the guarantee.

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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by jasonmorton on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:28PM (#20647182)

Thanks, looks like this is: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

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Re:Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls by nabnob on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:57PM (#20648044)

I use Riot - matrix-based chat client, has group video calls, and also offers end-to-end encryption.

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