[guardian-dev] otrchat/gibber git reorg

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sun Jan 9 22:02:11 EST 2011


On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Miron wrote:
>
> On 11-01-08 05:50 PM, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
>> On 08/01/11 06:02, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> So the OTR engine could stay in the service, but the actual  
>>> encrypt and
>>> decrypt actions happen in the app. But I guess it would be good if  
>>> OTR
>>> chat sessions could be initiated in the background in the service.
> ...
>> One application that I would really like to see written is a
>> privacy-respecting replacement for Google Latitude. I do not like the
>> idea of sending Google my location and don't like the "always on"
>> presumption of Latitude. I would therefore like an application that
>> simply securely sent my location through otrchat to my contact on  
>> demand
>> (say, when I'm driving to pick him/her up from somewhere or we are
>> trying to meet up). On the receiving end, his/her copy of the
>> application would receive the otrchat messages and display the  
>> location
>> on the recipient's OSM or Google map.
>>
>> The hard part of all of that seems to me to be the secure messaging,
>> which is already done in Gibber. Providing this ability to other
>> applications could also raise awareness of Gibber and why it is worth
>> installing over and above normal chat applications.
>>
>> Just my thoughts, which I thought I'd throw into the mix.
>>
>> Aaron
>
> +1
>
> Another advantage is that such an app might not need Internet  
> permission
> if all the communication it needed could be done through Gibber.
> -- 
> --
> Miron
> http://hyper.to/blog/


I like that idea too.  I'll happily do the work in Gibber if someone  
can take on the map app part.  It would be nice to see the otrchat  
service become a generic engine for such things.

.hc

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