Comment 183 for bug 296867

I think most people take it for granted that telepathy devs are on the dark
side - even the name of the project gives it away!

Telepathy is for other people to read your thoughts.

But it's bad manners to bring it up on the bug report list.
On 28 Apr 2014 17:51, "Bugzi" <email address hidden> wrote:

> After all that NSA, PRISM, etc, scandal, I don't want to imagine the silly
> face Telepathy's developers who stated so arrogantly that security wasn't
> very important must have every morning. They thought that critic users who
> were demanding security were little less than intellectually retarded
> people, who couldn't distinguish what is really important, whereas they,
> the developers, in "Their infinite wisdom", had the Truth, knowing what was
> prioritary, not us, stupid users who can't even code.
> After all these of costant slapping in their faces from the news, the
> papers, the public; in short: the reality, one would think they must have
> become a little humbler (Christ, they even rejected to work on encryption
> despite people was ready to collect money pay them to do it!), but it seems
> that things haven't evolved too much, right? (KDE's Telepathy
> implementation has even been removed from Prism Break website because its
> [lack of] security is just unacceptable:
> https://github.com/nylira/prism-break/issues/939 )
>
> Well, we, the critic users, aren't developers in this project, or at all.
> We can't tell them to do what we think is prioritary when the other 90% of
> users think is not (y'all know: a trillion flies can't be wrong. Let's eat
> sh*t), nor can we write an encryption plugin, so I think all critic users
> should stop trying to make TP devs reason, it's a lost cause.
> I suspect that Collabora, the company after Telepathy, might have been
> intentionally delaying as much as possible the "securization" of Telepathy.
> We known now that the obscure hand of the NSA has been involved in the
> development of cryptography standards and even in TOR. As an iceberg's
> peak, surely we don't even imagine the 90% unter the water. Suspiction is
> not knowledge, of course, but all that immovable interest in not writting a
> damn plugin for OTR o implementing any other secure encryption method year
> after year, even when people was ready to pay... Well, it just smells
> rather fishy.
>
>
> So, dear folks who do know that fascistoid governments and companies arent
> interested in "bad guys" only but want to have controlled all of their
> people "just in case", simply use Pidgin; it's ugly as a witch, yes, but it
> works; or if you want to polute your system with Java, you have Jisti,
> which is more feature rich, but I don't think all this discussion, all this
> bitching and all that "We are the devs, if you wan't something do it
> yourself!" has any sense, and even less if there are interests who don't
> want our conversations to be private.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
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