Gruveo, more secure skype alternative?
Cypher
cypher at cpunk.us
Wed Jul 23 11:29:15 PDT 2014
On 2014-07-22 23:24, unixninja92 wrote:
> Recently found Gruveo[1]. Allows easy video and audio calls similar to
> cryptocat. Unfortunately not open source and makes no mention of being
> audited. Otherwise looks very interesting and promising. It tries to
> use P2P to make calls, and if it fails, then it will go through their
> servers. Uses WebRTC for end to end encrypted audio and video chat.
> They claim they don't keep any logs that could identify users.
>
> So the question is, is this an NSA honey pot or something that might
> actually be trustworthy? It seems at least a bit more
> secure/trustworthy than skype to me.
Why even consider closed alternatives when you have things like Jitsi[1]
available? It's open source, does secure voice, video, and text, and
runs on just about any platform (including Android).
[1] www.jitsi.org
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