LCA: Jacob Appelbaum on surveillance and censorship

He also called out OTR: Off-the-Record Messaging (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/), a transport neutral IM encryption system with excellent usability properties as in important privacy tool, he even demoed it.

I thought this fit in well with the point he made about Free Software projects being able to enable features which empower the users, because one of the free software desktop groups has been pretty hostile towards OTR, instead promoting XMPP based XTLS certificate authenticated encryption in their own chat system. The XMPP/XTLS solution has all the wrong security and usability properties and as a result doesn't usefully empower the user.

I hope this point found the right audience at Linux.conf.au and will cause some people to reconsider their positions.