Comment 37 for bug 296867

Encryption is an absolut ko-creterion. So i have two reasons why pidgin will remain on my system:

1.) The Devs of empathy told me on irc that i have to trust the people how run the communication-server! Or i have to set up an own server! That's both totally out of the question for the average user. Sometime i get the impression that some devs are ignorant.

2.) I can't understand how a piece of software which trample on users privacy can make it into ubuntu. Using tubes to control remote desktops without encryption is a great security issue.

The underlying idea of empathy/telepathy may be good. But really important things are ignored. To move the responsibility to ONE protocol (jabber ) which may implement encryption in the future is really unsatisfying.