Gruveo, more secure skype alternative?

"Łukasz \"Cyber Killer\" Korpalski" cyberkiller8 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 21:47:29 PDT 2014


W dniu 23.07.2014 21:40, rysiek pisze:
> Dnia środa, 23 lipca 2014 13:29:15 Cypher pisze:
>> 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).
> 
> Plus, simply does not work, at least when I try it from time to time. :/
> 

On top of that it's not much configurable, the gui is slow/notresponsive
and the widget style is ugly and doesn't itegrate with the rest of my
KDE desktop.

Jitsi might be good software one day, but it's stil has quite a long way
to go.


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