So I talked about Skype and Viber at KrankyGeek two weeks ago. Watch the video on youtube or take a look at the slides. No “reports” or packet dumps to publish this time, mostly because it is very hard to draw conclusions from the results. The VoIP services we have looked at so far which […]
First steps with ORTC
ORTC support in Edge has been announced today. A while back, we saw this on twitter: Windows Insider Preview build 10525 is now available for PCs: http://t.co/zeXQJocgLs This release lays groundwork for ORTC in Microsoft Edge — Microsoft Edge Dev (@MSEdgeDev) August 18, 2015 “This release [build 10525] lays the groundwork for ORTC” was quite […]
Wiresharking Wire
This is the next decode and analysis in Philipp Hancke’s Blackbox Exploration series conducted by &yet in collaboration with Google. Please see our previous posts covering WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and FaceTime for more details on these services and this series. {“editor”: “chad hart“} Wire is an attempt to reimagine communications for the mobile age. It is a messaging app […]
Dear NY Times, if you’re going to hack people, at least do it cleanly!
So the New York times uses WebRTC to gather your local ip addresses… Tsahi describes the non-technical parts of the issue in his blog. Let’s look at the technical details… it turns out that the Javascript code used is very clunky and inefficient. First thing to do is to check chrome://webrtc-internals (my favorite tool since […]
Facetime doesn’t face WebRTC
This is the next decode and analysis in Philipp Hancke’s Blackbox Exploration series conducted by &yet in collaboration with Google. Please see our previous posts covering WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger for more details on these services and this series. {“editor”: “chad hart“} FaceTime is Apple’s answer to video chat, coming preinstalled on all modern iPhones and iPads. It […]