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Add a warning that Jami is partially centralized #1727

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lrq3000 opened this issue Feb 20, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #1752
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Add a warning that Jami is partially centralized #1727

lrq3000 opened this issue Feb 20, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #1752
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lrq3000 commented Feb 20, 2020

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Although it is described as a P2P client, Jami uses 5 different central servers to provide some functionalities, as described here and here. Hence, without self-hosting, these servers are points of failure where meta-data can leak (see also #1357).

This by the way goes counter to the cited advantage of P2P clients: "There are no servers that could potentially intercept and decrypt your transmissions, unlike centralized and federated models."

I suggest a warning is added about the possibility to disable/self-host these servers.

@lrq3000 lrq3000 added the 🌐 website issue *Technical* issues with the website. label Feb 20, 2020
@jonaharagon jonaharagon changed the title 🌐 Website Issue | Add a warning that Jami is partially centralized Add a warning that Jami is partially centralized Feb 20, 2020
@jonaharagon jonaharagon added 📝 correction Correction of content on the website and removed 🌐 website issue *Technical* issues with the website. labels Feb 20, 2020
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blacklight447 commented Mar 2, 2020

I think small note is would be a proper solution to this. this issue is one of the grey areas which are always difficult to define. Do you wnna make a quick PR for this @lrq3000 ?

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lrq3000 commented Mar 2, 2020

@blacklight447-ptio yes I'll do it :-)

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