[liberationtech] Zoom admitted, then denied, then admitted again that it censored an activist

[Yosem Companys]

Thanks! Very helpful.






On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 6:22 PM, Aaron van Meerten aaron.van.meerten at gmail.com 
wrote:
8x8 is a for profit company primarily focused on a unified communications
platform (soft phones, contact centers, video conferences, and APIs for all of
the previous as an automatable platform).  You can learn more (in marketing
speak) at https://8x8.com/
The Jitsi team and open source stack is committed to staying open source, as we
have through several company changes.  Probably our biggest needs are around
documentation, which we have a handbook in progress here:
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/. We’d happily take contributions or questions
there, or in our community discourse: https://community.jitsi.org/
We are a small team, and the features we work on are mixed between the needs of
the open source community and the priorities of the company.  In the past few
months for instance, our costs for hosting meet.jit.si  have gone up over 100x,
so we’ve been working on solutions to ensure we can still afford to run the free
service (rehosting, using fewer instances, optimizing extra-cost services like
recordings, etc).  We’ve also been struggling some to scale certain components
of the solution, such as debugging issues around delays/time-outs in the
Lua-based XMPP server we have been using, prosody.  We’re also working on
improving the E2EE user experience to allow better automated negotiation of
keys, etc.
Hope this helps answer your questions.
Cheers,
-Aaron

On Jun 13, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
That is great news, Aaron.
How does Jitsi work in terms of corporate governance? I know 8x8 owns Jitsi, but
are you for profit or not for profit like Signal? How is the open-source
community run? What are your biggest needs/challenges right now?
Thank you,Yosem





On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 5:16 PM, Aaron van Meertenaaron.van.meerten at gmail.comwrote:
Actually in the latest Chrome we have E2EE in Jitsi. There’s not a great model
for distribution of the key, so that is still required to happen out of band,
but as long as all participants have the key, we do support E2EE, where the
servers doing the forwarding do not have access to the media.




If you have a newer Chrome, check it out on https://meet.jit.si/




Cheers,




-Aaron




> On Jun 13, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:

>

> ..on Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 05:01:51PM +1000, Sam De Silva wrote:

>> https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/  isn’t bad.

>

> I agree, and it has improved much the last year. I run a few instances myself

> for a large activist movement.

>

> BigBlueButton is more of a 'Zoom replacement' albeit, with room management and

> recording. It also has an integrated whiteboard, Etherpad, allows for slide

> share (PDF upload) and screen sharing. I also run a large instance of this on
a

> dedicated box, 5 figure community using it around the clock. It needs a COTURN

> server to give a route for end-points behind a restrictive NAT or firewall

> (basically just maps the UDP port range needed by WebRTC to 443). Once tuned,

> it's really great.

>

> Neither are E2EE however, just like Zoom isn't (Zoom lied about that). E2EE
for

> videoconferencing at scale is really hard.

>

> Cheers,

>

> Julian

>

>>

>> ------------------------------------------------------

>> Sam de Silva | Engagement Advisor

>> sam at loki.network

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>>> On 13 Jun 2020, at 12:28 pm, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>

>>> 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/zoom-admits-cutting-off-activists-accounts-in-obedience-to-china 
 <
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/zoom-admits-cutting-off-activists-accounts-in-obedience-to-china
>

>>>

>>> So what did we agree is the best end-to-end encrypted alternative?

>>>

>>> I tried Cisco Webex, which is Wirecutter-recommended, but it is glitchy
(i.e., the dial-in numbers often do not work).

>>>

>>> https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-conferencing-service/ 
<https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-conferencing-service/>

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