A few days back my old friend Chris Koehncke, better known as “Kranky” asked me how hard it would be to implement a wild idea he had to monitor what percentage of the time you spent talking instead of listening on a call when using WebRTC. When I said “one day” that made him wonder […]
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OMG WebRTC is tracking me! Or is it?
There has been more noise about WebRTC making it possible to track users. We have covered some of the nefarious uses of WebRTC and look out for it before. After reading a blog post on this topic covering some allegedly new unaddressed issues a week ago I decided to ignore it after some discussion on the mozilla […]
Hello Chrome and Firefox, this is Edge calling
For the first time, Chrome, Firefox and Edge can “talk” to each other via WebRTC and ORTC. Check the demo on Microsoft’s modern.ie testdrive. tl;dr: don’t worry, audio works. codec interop issue… Feature Interoperability Notes ICE yes Edge requires end-of-candidate signaling DTLS yes audio yes using G.722, Opus or G.711 codecs video no standard H.264 […]
Traffic Encryption
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 […]
