[liberationtech] Adium w/ Facebook, or Google Talk
Katrin Verclas
katrin at mobileactive.org
Mon Jul 2 08:06:59 PDT 2012
The secure instant messaging client for Android from Guardian Project is Gibberbot, Robert: https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber/
Katrin
On Jul 2, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Robert Guerra wrote:
> On 2012-07-02, at 9:45 AM, <frank at journalistsecurity.net> wrote:
>
>> Check that. I am a MAC user, so Google Talk will apparently not work.
>>
>> I am open to suggestions...Thanks!
>>
>
> Frank,
>
> Adium is a a good Mac multi-protocol chat client. It's source code is available and generally well recieved by the community.
>
> Adium has OTR (off the record functionality) which will enable for secure chatting regardless of the chat system (google chat, yahoo, etc) that is used. I highly recommend you turn on OTR functionality and make sure the party you are chatting with has an OTR enabled client (jitsi, pidgin, or adium).
>
> If you want secure voice functionality, then i'd recommend a ZRTP enabled client such as Jitsi. Again, like Adium - the secure features, OTR (for secure chat) and ZRTP (for secure voice) need to be activated on both sides for the conversation to be secured with encryption.
>
> ZRTP clients for mobile devices also exist. Groundwire for iOS has a ZRTP functionality. csipsimple is the one suggested by the folks at the Guardian project for Android <https://guardianproject.info/2012/05/26/ostn-secure-voip-wizard-now-built-into-csipsimple-for-android/>
>
>
> Groundwire
> http://www.acrobits.cz/11/acrobits-groundwire-for-iphone
>
> csipsimple
> https://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/
>
> regards
>
> Robert
>
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Katrin Verclas
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