Gruveo, more secure skype alternative?

[Juan]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:48:38 +0100
Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:

> "Closed source" is exactly the same as "something in the source code
> to hide from the user". Never, ever trust closed source code.


	I see that kind of aassertions endlessly repeated. They seem
	rather baseless. 

	"Closed source"  means that if you want to audit something, you
	need to use a disassembler.



> 
> On 23/07/14 05:24, 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.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.gruveo.com/
> > 
>