[liberationtech] Google keeps the chat history even you enabled the OTR

[Ximin Luo]

On 08/05/14 14:05, Nariman Gharib wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Just I want to remind you, Gmail is keeping your chat history even you enable the OTR on your gmail chat. 
> 
> how? if you going to plus.google.com <http://plus.google.com> and on the top right side of the page you click on the Hangout, and then select a person who you talked to him recently, you can see your all chat history is come up! you can delete manually your chat history from there too, but too sides should do the same things. I don't know after these things Google will keep our chat history or not!!! but I think this is a bug in Gmail service.
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> 
> Thanks
> Nariman
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Confusingly, Google Talk's "off the record" option has NO relation to the end-to-end encrypted OTR that we know about. I am surprised that the chat history is still visible to users, though.

To use OTR with Google Talk, you need to use a 3rd-party program like the ones mentioned on http://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

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