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Coming over the summer, Microsoft is going to add integrated call recording (something that previously required third-party applications and a deprecated API), read receipts to show when a message recipient has read a message, and end-to-end encryption of text and audio chat using the Signal protocol.
Microsoft is also making Skype audio and video calls easier to integrate into streams such as those used on Mixer and Twitch. Support for the NDI API means that streaming applications such as Xsplit and OBS can use a Skype call as an audio/video source. That means they can be overlaid on games or other content, just as is already done with webcam input.
Will the changes come in time to save Skype's userbase?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:57AM (7 children)
Sorry, but Microsoft already rolled over for the NSA. They're inherently untrustworthy. If they wanted to impress me with end-to-end encryption, then one of the fundamental rules of security now is complete and utter openness of the code base for inspection. Even then, I don't trust Microsoft to run the repositories and prevent governments from trying to introduce well hidden flaws. Remember the geniuses at the NSA (no sarcasm -- not even a tiny bit) hid a compromise in the CSPRNG that NIST recommended. I don't push it past them to introduce something comparable in the Signal code base used by Microsoft either.
We all know the only things we would have access to are the binaries.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:59AM (4 children)
LOL!
I completely forgot it would be running on a fully compromised operating system -- Windows 10 :) The chain o' trust begins at the silicon, and ultimately the OS. Windows 10 is a surveillance device like Facebook is a surveillance platform.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @12:45PM (3 children)
Switch to Ubuntu?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)
Ubuntu is an acceptable alternative, but there's so much to choose from. https://distrowatch.com/ [distrowatch.com]
Manjaro has been pretty high up / top of the list for some time now. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=manjaro [distrowatch.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @11:25PM
That doesn't mean Manjaro is popular, only that they received X amount of clicks.
Does that mean if I sit behind proxies and change my IP ever so often and reload the Fedora page over and over again for a few days that Fedora, the distribution is suddenly wildly popular?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:13PM
Well, preferably something without SystemD. Ubuntu is infected with it. I say this as I type on Ubuntu too. Only OS that truly has bleeding edge hardware support. I figure in a little while the BSD variants like TrueOS might support my hardware, or some systemd-free Linux distro. I tried everything in the beginning, but had to *settle* for Ubuntu.
SystemD is in infection in a few ways:
1) Feature creep like a mother fucker, and it violates design principles. Interconnected utilities and narrowly defined functionality are good things, not monolithic fuckups like SystemD. If I wanted that shit, I would stick with Windows 10 and svchost.exe.
2) PID 1 for everything! Yay!
3) An ever growing shitheap of a codebase, and peer review is a myth.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday July 18 2018, @05:31AM
I have GREAT confidence in MY intelligence people. But I don't use computer. Only cell phone. Skype app for cell phone?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 18 2018, @02:58PM
Only Microsoft will offer a call recording feature done the right way.
Google, Amazon, and Apple won't be able to match this.
Plus, Microsoft can get a patent on it.
Microsoft's new call recording feature will offer a simple RECORD button you can press to have a recording of your call.
But you can press it tomorrow when you suddenly realize that you need a recording of yesterday's call.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.