Dnia wtorek, 30 września 2014 14:53:05 Nikos Roussos pisze:
On 09/30/2014 12:39 PM, Bethany wrote:
I'm mostly a lurker, too, but I'll remark that Firechat can't be bogus: its use caught on in a massive way, and the ease of use and the P2P connection feature is playing an active part in a community's SUCCESSFUL self-organization in the face of real repression. While you're absolutely right that an app can't call itself anonymous if it collects Google Play information on its users, the question about whether the app allows perfect anonymity isn't as important as: does the app allow perfect anonymity from Beijing?
Well.. you can't be sure if you don't have the source code ;) (see below).
I'd also point out that I believe Firechat is open source. And on Github: https://github.com/firebase/firechat
I think that's a different app [1]. There is no mention for source code on the official website. [2]
[1] https://firechat.firebaseapp.com/ [2] https://opengarden.com/firechat
Let me just add that a truly FLOSS and P2P Twitter replacement, Twister, got a huge number of new Chinese-speaking users during the last few days. Tags #occupycentral and #hkclassboycott are really active as far as what could be expected from a beta you have to compile yourself. https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core http://twister.net.co/ You can search Twister from outside with this (warning: code unavailable, it's a 3rd-party service, might eat your dog, etc): https://twisterio.com/ Examples: https://twisterio.com/search?kw=hkclassboycott https://twisterio.com/search?kw=occupycentral -- Pozdr rysiek