Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Emil Ivov and Saúl Ibarra Corretgé of the Jitsi project. Jitsi is an open-sourced privacy-focused video conferencing software. It requires no registration and can work within a browser. This episode explores Jitsi's end-to-end encryption in depth, ways to make Jitsi Meet even more private, what Jitsi knows about its users, and some background about this fantastic project.
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→ https://meet.jit.si
→ https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
→ https://jitsi.org/security (Encryption blog)
→ https://twitter.com/jitsinews
→ https://twitter.com/emilivov (Emil Ivov)
→ https://twitter.com/saghul (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-5J9eiVgQ (Origins of Jitsi: 20 years in making)
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Timeline
0:00 – Introduction
1:14 – Snapshot of Jitsi Meet
2:19 – How is Jitsi Meet free?
4:51 – Different versions of Jitsi
6:47 – End-to-end encryption
22:42 – What does Jitsi know about its users?
25:40 – How to lock down Jitsi Meet further
29:47 – Gabriel walks through his use of Jitsi Meet
32:36 – Dangers of URL as invitation link
36:20 – Where are Jitsi's recordings stored?
40:14 – Fear of screen sharing
45:49 – Origins of Jitsi
55:14 - What is next for Jitsi and VOIP?
