[OTR-users] Pidgin-OTR Logging Behaviour

Pete Stephenson pete at heypete.com
Wed Feb 1 11:45:16 EST 2012


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please no!
>
> It's very important that OTR be as transparent and painless as
> possible.  For almost everyone risk of attack is very low— if you make
> OTR at all annoying the rational behavior for the user will be to
> _disable it_, denying protection to both them and their chat partners.
> (and because an eavesdropper is invisible people often underestimate
> the risk in any case)

For what it's worth, I second this position: OTR should be transparent
and non-intrusive as much as possible.

(My apologies to Gregory: I mistakenly sent my reply to him directly,
as opposed to the list, so he'll get this message twice.)

-Pete

-- 
Pete Stephenson



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