[liberationtech] Could you help our lonely 98-year-old WW2 vet neighbor regain access to his Yahoo email?

[fuzzyTew]

It's up to us to support the best candidate for resolving these things in
one place.  I used to lean towards getting pidgin to have quality, but I
didn't have the capacity.

What desktop project do you think would be the best investment of support,
or base for a new project, for building sufficient respectful empowerment
(privacy, anonymity, resilience, accessibility) for end users in?

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 7:06 PM bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:

> Dino i forgot to mention it, it is supposedly good client but privacy
> garbage on practical level because it doesnt support connection over
> Tor, lack of IP-Port configurations, no encryption to local chat
> history..etc:
>
> https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/745 (wont fix feature for encrypting
> the chat when saved locally, and i assume same goes for username/password)
>
> https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/115 (modifying hostname and port
> configuration not fixed since 3 years)
>
> https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/567 (said to be fixed but it did not
> when trying that as it mentioned in whonix forum)
>
> https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/244 (no connection to hidden
> services supported yet)
>
> has some other stuff:
>
> https://forums.whonix.org/t/dino-im-messenger/7773/13
>
> CoyIM was the best in its time but sadly developer jailed due to his
> connections with wikileaks.
>
> Denver Gingerich:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 06:44:51PM +0000, bo0od wrote:
> >>> Also, the most popular XMPP clients (such as Conversations and
> ChatSecure)
> >>> have OMEMO built-in and use it by default.  So I think for most users,
> >>> privacy is indeed the default with XMPP.
> >>
> >> These are mobile OS only based clients Conversations for Android only ,
> >> Chatsecure for IOS only , what about Desktop? nothing active available
> with
> >> builtin encryption.
> >
> > Dino has OMEMO included by default.  There may be others that have it
> included by default too - I don't know all desktop XMPP clients off-hand.
> >
> > For many clients (like Gajim), whether OMEMO is included is generally up
> to the distribution's packager.  In Debian, for example, Gajim's OMEMO
> support is indeed in a separate package, as you alluded to.
> >
> >> So lets say secure chatting over insecure operating systems (insecure
> >> endings)
> >
> > You can run Conversations on Replicant, which is a fully free version of
> Android.  But I do agree that it's better to use a non-phone when possible
> for better security.
> >
> > Denver
> > https://jmp.chat/
> >
>
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