Jitsi Meet
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What is your opinion of this online video conferencing service? What are its disadvantages? Is it a superior solution to Skype?
Skype is proprietary software. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know it is spyware (Microsoft changed Skype specifically for spying): https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/20/project-chess-how-u-s-snoops-on-your-skype/#17b4ab2484e0
Jitsi Meet is free software, hence respectful of your freedoms. From that perspective, it is infinitely superior to Skype!
However, it stopped working for me in Abrowser: https://trisquel.info/forum/videotelephony-trisquel-7
dsj19 suggested me Wire: https://trisquel.info/forum/videotelephony-trisquel-7#comment-126289
Wire looks OK, freedom-wise: https://trisquel.info/forum/videotelephony-trisquel-7#comment-126629
It is simple to install (although obviously harder than Jitsi Meet): https://trisquel.info/forum/videotelephony-trisquel-7#comment-126325
I tried it today for the first time. It perfectly worked. :-)
I'm using Firefox 57, and, from a brief test, it seems to work fine. My concern is that the service is running via a web browser. There's no software involved, am I not right? Isn't this fact problematic from a point of view of privacy and security?
There is software involved. It is free. Here is the source code: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
About privacy and security, README.md says:
WebRTC today does not provide a way of conducting multiparty conversations with end-to-end encryption. As a matter of fact, unless you consistently vocally compare DTLS fingerprints with your peers, the same goes for one-to-one calls. As a result when using a Jitsi Meet instance, your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge.
The Jitsi Meet architecture allows you to deploy your own version, including all server components, and in that case your security guarantees will be roughly equivalent to these of a direct one-to-one WebRTC call. This is what's unique to Jitsi Meet in terms of security.
The meet.jit.si service is maintained by the Jitsi team at Atlassian.
Also, if you use a VPN, WebRTC (that Jitsi Meet uses) was leaking the real IP address; I do not know if it still the case. Anyway, you can use uBlock Origin that fixes that problem (among many other things): https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-leaking-local-IP-address
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