Skype handing over more chat data to law enforcement

Microsoft received a patent for "legal intercept" on VoIP calls last year.

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[SirMarth01]

Does jabber have a compatible voice or video protocol? I'm liking the vision of a mesh future with directly routed comms and end-to-end encryption.

Thanks to ZRTP and SRTP, you can use the Jingle extension of XMPP to allow encrypted voice and video chat.

The only good client for Windows seems to be Jitsi. Jitsi also supports OTR for chat encryption.

 

[SirMarth01]

Does jabber have a compatible voice or video protocol? I'm liking the vision of a mesh future with directly routed comms and end-to-end encryption.

Thanks to ZRTP and SRTP, you can use the Jingle extension of XMPP to allow encrypted voice and video chat.

The only good client for Windows seems to be Jitsi. Jitsi also supports OTR for chat encryption.

What about for operating systems that don't suck?

Jitsi works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. (Wikipedia claims BSD support, but I've found no reference to such on the official website.)

Edit: Didn't notice AxMi-24's comment until after I sent.