Firechat, this «freedom of speech-app» is bogus

[Nikos Roussos]

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


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Nikos Roussos
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