[Ilugc] Beware of skype
- From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:45:54 -0400
On 05/15/2013 09:55 AM, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
To my knowledge skype does not use their servers to send the voice
data (this is what I was told may be wrong). So thought it is the same
for text also.
If you care about eavesdropping at all, use otr. Pidgin has a plugin
that supports it
$ sudo yum info pidgin-otr
Installed Packages
Name : pidgin-otr
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.2.1
Release : 2.fc18
Size : 276 k
Repo : installed
From repo : fedora
Summary : Off-The-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin
URL :
http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
License : GPLv2
Description : This is a Pidgin plugin which implements Off-the-Record (OTR)
: Messaging. It is known to work (at least) under the Linux and
: Windows versions of Pidgin.
Rahul
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