[Standards-JIG] Re: CSpace instant messenger integrated in Jabber

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 8/5/06, Carlo v. Loesch <CvL at mail.symlynx.com> wrote:
> oh! you mean the c-id is used to protect your privacy! so it isn't so
> unimportant after all! and once a person knows your public key, they can
> always find out your ip and attack you, yes? so if i don't like you i
> can simply publish your public key saying on that server there are tons
> of warez p0rn and mp3, yes?

> huh.. alright, but what if the server is my own, or of one of my best
> friends? all it does it does for me. if some employee of my ISP spies on
> me, i am sure my ISP at home works for government or the FBI, so my
> server's isp is trustworthier than my dsl isp.

Now I'm not defending cspace as an improvement over jabber of course,
but to be fair Carlo, I don't think it works the way you think.  If it
works like WASTE, it's totally closed-loop.  You cannot exchange
information (or even see what is available) until you've exchanged
keys.  The ISP or government would not (in theory) be able to see
anything unless there were key escrow.  You'd be an idiot to use a
system which had key escrow for sharing your porn and warez.  :)

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