Comment 185 for bug 296867

Well, my issue isn't how the devs choose to spend their time, but the
extremely hostile and dismissive attitude they took towards security and
privacy when they have addressed this bug/feature request/feature.

I haven't paid them, they are not obligated to me, I am disturbed that
Ubuntu would switch to an unsecurable chat software as their default. I'm
disturbed that people would have such a hostile attitude to security and
privacy. I'm not bothered that they don't want to spend their time doing
it.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Chris Kerr <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm fed up of people complaining about developers. It's *free software*,
> and if you get anything more than you paid for then you should be
> grateful (I certainly am).
>
> This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of
> the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. When someone gives their
> best effort to produce software as a gift to the community, often
> working in spare evenings with lots of other distractions which prevent
> them giving their full focus to the task, they get next to no praise
> when it works and a whole heap of criticism when they make a tiny
> mistake. People even accuse them of deliberately inserting the mistake
> as a government spy.
>
> I'm currently writing up my PhD thesis. When I finish, I will have some
> free time while waiting for my viva voce, and would be willing to spend
> some of that time trying to fix this, as it is something I would find
> useful myself and potentially also a helpful addition to my CV. However
> there are probably plenty of people out there who would do a better job
> than I, especially since I have mainly used Fortran and Python for the
> last 4 years so my C/C++ is rather rusty.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867
>
> Title:
> empathy needs to support OTR encryption
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
> Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
> Invalid
> Status in Telepathy framework - library:
> Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Hello,
> I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and
> stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g.
> automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
> The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR
> support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important
> feature because no one should read your messages.
> There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
> Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
> Thanks for helping out!
>
> Links:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
>
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
>
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