If you are looking for a free group video call service that allows up to 100 participants and is safe, you are in luck. Google has just announced that starting today, Google Meet will be free for anyone using a Google account.

Until now, Google Meet was a premium service that was used only in business and education with G Suite accounts, but the company has decided to open the service from May 4. They justify the date by claiming that they want the experience to be safe and reliable from the start. The good thing is that from that moment, you can start calls from Gmail.

The movement by Google is great news for millions of people who want to make quality group video calls these days, and is a great alternative to other services that are widely used these days, such as Skype, Jitsi Meet or Zoom. From some of these applications, Google has been borrowing ideas such as the grid view or the cancellation of environmental noise. On mobile, for example, Google Meet will receive a feature that will make images in low light look better.

One of the things Google Meet stands out the most, like Hangouts, is in image quality. It is something that we could see from the hands of our Xataka colleagues, although this also implies better data consumption. However, what can attract more users in the face of the image crisis that Zoom has gone through due to doubts about its security is that it is Google who guarantees the security and privacy of calls for up to 100 participants. Video calls are limited to 60 minutes on the free plan, but until September there will be no time limit.

Google Meet video calls will have no time limit until September 30

In that sense, Google reminds us that all data is encrypted in transit between the client and Google in browsers and mobile applications.. Meet recordings stored on Google Drive are also encrypted by default. To avoid problems such as zoombombings, they will not be able to participate in the so-called anonymous users, and the hosts will have full capacities to admit participants.

Unlike services like Jitsi Meet, the pity is that Google Meet does not allow to make group video calls without installing an application on the mobile, so many users may have some more problem getting to connect and start a conversation.

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The video conferencing app Zoom gained about 2 million new users in the first two months of 2020 and that was before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. With so many people now relying on video conferencing for contact with their friends, family and colleagues, its no wonder Zoom has seen a significant increase in its company stock price. But the firm has also attracted some negative press recently for issues related to its privacy and security.

I worked in the video conferencing industry for 10 years. During this time, I started a PhD on whether such systems meet the needs of organisations that have to communicate under adversarial circumstances, such as international NGOs and opposition groups under oppressive regimes. My near-finished research shows that Zoom has indeed had plenty of problems, but is far from the only platform with security and privacy issues.

A number of issues with Zoom have attracted public attention, most notably call hijacking or Zoom-bombing. Calls that are not set to private or password-protected can be accessed by anyone who inputs the nine- to 11-digit meeting code, and researchers have shown how valid meeting codes could easily be identified (something Zoom now says it prevents).

Zoom has also recently had to make changes to its iPhone and iPad apps to stop Facebook being able to collect data about users. And last year it was forced to fix a problem that could have allowed websites to turn on Mac users cameras without permission.

Another issue, recently highlighted by The Intercept, is that Zoom claims its calls can be encrypted, but doesnt use the kind of end-to-end encryption that many people have come to understand as standard for private communication services. Messages or calls sent with end-to-end encryption are effectively locked with the receiving users public key that anyone can access, but can only be unlocked by the users private key. This system is used by messaging apps such as WhatsApp to ensure only a messages recipient can read it not even the apps provider has access.

Zoom instead uses the AES-256 ECB method of encryption, which shares the key used to encrypt calls with Zooms servers around the globe. This potentially gives them full access to the audio and video streams, although the company has stated no user content is available to its employees or servers once encrypted.

Researchers have also found that encryption keys even up on Zoom servers based in China (where the company has development sites) even when no Chinese participants are in the call. This opens the possibility that the Chinese government, famed for its control of internet communications in the country, could eavesdrop on calls. Zoom has now started offering paying customers the ability to opt out of having data routed through China or other regions.

While Zoom has developed measures or options to at least partly address all of the issues highlighted and said it will freeze the development of new features for 90 days so it can focus on improving security the litany of problems that have already been identified should provoke serious thought among its users. On top of this, Zooms privacy policy is arguably not user-friendly. By downloading the app, you essentially grant the company permission to do with your personal data whatever they want.

The problem for anyone looking for a more private system is that many of Zooms competitors have their own similar security issues. For example, Microsofts Skype and Teams services also use forms of encryption that give the company control over the keys.

So what are the alternatives? The most secure options are arguably those that use end-to-end encryption and are built with open-source code because it can be publicly reviewed to check it doesnt have any hidden problems.

Signal is a messaging app that falls into this category and also provides video calling from smartphones, but not desktop video calls or video conferencing with multiple parties. Jitsi is also open source and provides end-to-end encrypted video calls via a web browser, and is working on doing the same for multi-party video conferencing.

If these options dont suit you, then there are things you can do when using Zoom or other video calling services that have potential security issues to maximise your privacy and safety.

In response to the issues raised in this article, a Zoom spokesperson said:

Zoom takes user privacy, security, and trust extremely seriously. Zoom was originally developed for enterprise use, and has been confidently selected for complete deployment by a large number of institutions globally, following security reviews of our user, network and datacenter layers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working around-the-clock to ensure that businesses, schools, and other organizations across the world can stay connected and operational. As more and new kinds of users start using Zoom during this time, Zoom has been proactively engaging to make sure they understand Zooms relevant policies, as well as the best ways to use the platform and protect their meetings.

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The health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic it has forced us to adopt new habits. The way of working has changed practically in all areas, we interact in a different way in order to maintain the necessary physical distance, we use new technological solutions and these changes have also come to politics. Especially at the appearances and press conferences, which are now held electronically in empty rooms.

The ones that have given the most to talk about in Spain are the ones that the Government summons daily in the Moncloa Palace so that different positions in the administration, ministers and even the President of the Executive account for the latest data and announcements in relation to COVID-19.

The Government uses two applications when conducting press conferences: Jitsi Meet for the drawing of question times among non-regular journalists and its own solution for asking questions live

And they have had to talk because, until a few days ago, journalists had to ask their questions through a WhatsApp group managed by the Secretary of State for Communication and not live through any technological solution, as was happening at telematic press conferences of opposition parties, which have been using Zoom.

Since this Monday, everything has changed. Yielding to criticism, the Moncloa allows the formulation of questions live through a videoconference system at the appearances of the ministers and the president.

On the one hand, the usual means organize themselves when it comes to articulating the five shifts available to them at each appearance. On the other hand, as explained and shown through a video eldiario.es, the non-habitual media assist through another video conferencing app, Jitsi Meet, to the raffle of five other question turns carried out by the State of Communication Secretariat using the Google random number generator.

Recording of the draw for question shifts published by eldiario.es.

The system that the government uses to connect journalists to press conferences and to ask questions live is offered through a government domain

Subsequently, all the journalists who have been assigned a speaking time are invited to an own government system through which they ask their questions live, seeing their image both in the press room of the Palacio de la Moncloa and on the television signal that It is distributed.

But What is Jitsi Meet like? How is it different from other similar applications? Where does it come from? Is it a true alternative to Zoom, Skype, Hangouts ?

Jitsi Meet is nothing more than a derivative of Jitsi, the parent project, a set of video conferencing, VoIP and instant messaging application projects that began in 2003 as a student project of Emil Ivov.

Over the years and the arrival of both private and institutional support, went from being an experimentation tool to becoming a service maintained by BlueJimp, a company founded by Ivov himself who employed some of the main collaborators in the project. Currently, the Australian software company that acquired BlueJimp in 2015, Atlassian, maintains the project and especially its derivatives, such as Jitsi Meet, with its distribution under the terms of an Apache license and, therefore, being open source.

A recent meeting of the Jitsi team.

The fundamental difference of Jitsi Meet with extremely popular solutions today such as Zoom, beyond being free software, is that no need to install any kind of software or register for the service. We only have to access your web client through the browser and, if we use a mobile phone, we have the possibility of using the applications for Android and iOS.

And what about encryption? Well, something similar happens to the Zoom case. Although group video calls are encrypted in some way, encryption is not end-to-end, the bridging server decrypts the information that is transmitted.

Jitsi also does not offer end-to-end encryption, although it allows us to enable our own computer as a server for greater security.

The difference with other solutions, however, is that Jitsi allows us to enable our own server, which does not mean that we can achieve end-to-end encryption, but we can keep the machine under our direct control in which the data is decrypted. A solution that is not ideal, but it can provide us with greater confidence. Despite everything, since the project they have been working for a long time to improve the technology that they use and that the E2E does not allow.

Looking also at privacy, it should be noted that in Jitsi use Google Analytics to evaluate the use of functions and possible errors, but if we do not generate too much confidence in the possibility that part of our data will reach Mountain View, no matter how minor, there is a code developed by third parties that allows you to deactivate this option from the client that enables our equipment as a server.

Another great attraction of Jitsi Meet is that You do not have any kind of user limit regarding your video calls, so they can have as many participants as desired. It will depend, in any case, on the connections that the server can support and the available bandwidth.

One of the most curious options of Jitsi Meet allows us to count how much each participant has spoken in a video call

Finally, it should be noted that this solution enables both public and private video or voice chat rooms; customize their names, access addresses and interface appearance; and have a phone number to access them by phone. In addition to all this, we have at our disposal a Chrome extension, options such as text chat, blur the background of the image of our camera, ask for the floor with the option that allows us to raise our hands virtually, silence or not the participants and even the possibility of knowing how long each one has spoken.

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Zoom, the popular-by-necessity video conferencing platform, has seen an explosion in users as the coronavirus pandemic forces people to work from home. In a recent blog post, CEO Eric S. Yuan said Zoom now has 200 million users, up from just 10 million last December.

But, with that increase in users has come greater scrutiny of Zooms privacy and security. With widespread reports of Zoombombing (where strangers dial in your channel with something rude and disruptive), the companys procedures have been called into question by the New York Attorney General, and prompted a class-action lawsuit.

The New Yorks Attorney General said he is concerned that Zooms existing security practices might not be sufficient to adapt to the recent and sudden surge in both the volume and sensitivity of data being passed through its network.

Until recently, Zooms iPhone app included software that surreptitiously funneled user data to Facebook. The lawsuit says the code allowed Facebook to target users with ads.

Zoom has been criticized for ignoring privacy before. A year ago, a researcher found four million Zoom user cameras were potentially vulnerable to remote takeover without you knowing.

The company is currently pausing all feature development and shifting all our engineering resources to focus on our biggest trust, safety and privacy issues, Yuan said. But for many users, this isnt good enough. Theyve already lost trust in Zoom and are searching for alternatives (which we identify below).

Despite its ease of use, Zoom does not seem to take privacy seriously, said Reuben Yap, Zcoin Project Steward. Despite claims that Zooms video calls are [end-to-end] encrypted, this isnt actually the case. E2E encryption means that even Zoom should not be able to view the contents of the videos or calls.

Instead, all Zoom provides is transport encryption, meaning that it is secured to the extent that outsiders cannot intercept the call and view it. This still means that we have to trust Zoom to not read or leak this info. Given its track record, I dont have high hopes, Yap said.

Yoav Degani, the founder of MyPrivacy, an app that bundles privacy protection tools such as a VPN and a password manager, said there are several privacy and security issues with Zoom. Because meetings can be recorded and uploaded to the cloud, which is not secured, people who are not on the meeting can get a recording (like your boss for example). Also, organizers can receive a text file with the transcript of the meeting chat.

There's also a feature available to the meeting's host called attendee attention tracking, said Degani. It allows the host to monitor participants' computers and see if someone is not active in the Zoom call for more than 30 seconds.

You may not be officially active if, say, you put the Zoom window in the background and play some game or read some post on Facebook.

Degani said some bad guys are taking advantage of the situation and there are dozens of websites with the name Zoom that all of a sudden appear in search results and advertising and are used for phishing.

Several people who build and develop privacy-oriented tools recommend Jitsi as a more secure alternative to Zoom.

Emil Ivov, one of the founders of Jitsi, said what sets it apart from other video conferencing services is its low friction. Creating a meeting is as simple as typing your name in, and its just one click to join. The company uses WebRTC, or Web Realtime Communications, which enables peer-to-peer video, data and audio communication between two web browsers. So on desktops there are no downloads and no accounts needed, said Ivov.

We are really mindful about privacy and security, said Ivov. We require no personal data and fully support anonymous use. We are also open source. This is where we are truly unique. If you have any concerns about how we run our service, then you can just go and run your own! It only takes 15 minutes.

Being open source also means anyone can scrutinize its software. But Jitsi does not feature end-to-end encryption.

For now this is simply not possible with WebRTC, although the whole community is looking into the problem and we are hoping there will soon be solutions, said Ivov. For the time being, however, all your data is encrypted in-flight using DTLS-SRTP [a protocol which adds encryption and ensures message authentication and integrity] as per the WebRTC standard. None of your media content leaves your computer unencrypted.

Jitsi is one more secure alternative, and another includes Whereby. One big drawback: Users are limited to four meeting participants in the free version. The Pro version of Whereby is $9.99 per month, and allows up to 12 participants per room in up to three meeting rooms.

Other one-to-one alternatives include Facetime, which does have end-to-end encryption, as does Signal, the privacy-focused messaging and call app.

Products and services can be built to be both convenient and to protect privacy by design at the back-end, says Raullen Chai, CEO of IoTeX, a Silicon Valley company that develops privacy-protecting smart devices. Then you dont have to worry about whether or not you trust a centralized party because it is built in what can and cant happen with your data, returning control to the consumer. Blockchain-based key issuance allows for true end-to-end encryption without having to trust a central provider to not keep a key for themselves.

Take all this into account, and its just one more indicator that yes, that meeting could probably be an email. As long as its one sent securely, that is.

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Pubs closed, streets empty, friendships on lockdown: With half the planet staying indoors, conversations have gone online. While many have turned to video chats on Zoom, these five services are just as easy and offer better privacy and security.

The coronavirus and resulting social isolation has made it harder to meet friends and family. So why not engage in a video chat and avoid any risk of infection? We look at some of the apps that let you do this.

If your video chat is only to take place between two people or two devices, pretty much any messenger app will suffice. However, there are plenty of options if you want to connect with more people.

If you use a smartphone or tablet, you have one of the prerequisites already, namely a camera. Most laptops also have an integrated one. If you're using a desktop PC, you'll need a webcam, and possibly also a microphone and loudspeaker.

The five services listed below can connect entire families and groups of friends and some also have useful additional features.

Hangouts: Google's communication platform can handle text messages, voice calls and video conferences in the free edition for up to 10 participants.

It runs on iOS and Android smartphones and on a computer inside a browser. Every participant needs to have a Google account. You can also link your phone number to it and so become findable that way.

Hangouts can be found in the Google and Apple app stores and also in the app selection in your Google account. It works well for users with different device platforms.

Facetime: If everyone on your call is an Apple user, Facetime offers the easiest solution. Apple's voice and video calls app is pre-installed on all Apple devices and only works with them.

Users of iPhones, iPads and Macs can easily initiate video calls with their contacts. Facetime calls are free but do consume data volume on your mobile network.

To use Facetime, users need to have at least an iPhone 6s, an iPad Air 2 or an iPad mini 4 running iOS 12.1.4. If you have an older device that supports iOS 12.1.4, you can still dial in but only as an audio guest.

Skype: A classic among video telephony services, it allows up to 50 people to be connected to a group call. The prerequisite is that you have the Skype app on an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet or the desktop version on PCs and Macs.

External users without Skype can also be invited to a video chat via a link and can then get access using Skype for Web.

Skype's a practical option for communication across different devices. To use it on a smartphone or PC you need a Skype or Microsoft account.

WhatsApp: Up to four participants can connect to each other using this popular messaging app. To do so, simply start a call with the first person and add up to two more. Or you can select all three contacts and start a call.

The app works with Android and iOS smartphones. If you use Android, you need at least version 4.1 of the operating system. The app is widespread but a downside is that the number of participants is limited.

Jitsi : Free open-source video conferencing software for the web and smartphones, Jitsi enables encrypted communication between participants. It's available for iOS and Android smartphones or on PCs using a browser. It can also be integrated into the Slack collaboration software.

It works for text messaging, screen sharing and video conferencing. You don't need to have a user account and can invite chat participants via a link. dpa

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With social distancing directives in place across the globe, it generally looks like everybody has no less than tried to make use of one videoconferencing software program or software since vital area between us turned the brand new regular. Video con calls arent only for firms maintaining firm productiveness and communication a good quantity of family and friends have been logging into on-line interplay instruments to be in contact with one another, play group video games, conduct remedy periods, arrange non secular ceremonies, and much more.

One of the extra in style video conferencing apps is Zoom, which has seen an unprecedented explosion in recognition over the previous two months. At the onset of 2020, market analysis analyst Apptopia reported that Zoom had solely about 12.9 million customers as of January 1.

By April 6, simply three calendar months into the yr, Zoom was estimating that its worldwide consumer rely had now surpassed 200 million, a meteoric improve that displays the same rise in consumer counts of conferencing internet functions on the whole, all boosted by the necessity of communities worldwide to remain in contact for work, help, and recreation.

While most of these apps have skilled exponential progress (Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins stated that Ciscos enterprise conferencing software, Webex, had enabled over 5.5 billion minutes of conferences within the first 17 days of March alone), Zoom has been making the headlines from the get-go, primarily on account of usually excessive video and streaming high quality paired with accessible value (free for the essential model, with a paid enterprise model that provides you a free trial interval).

However in current weeks, Zoom has been marred by controversy as its tech star rose to nose-bleed heights, and far of this was on account of security and privateness considerations. Back when it was utilized by a comparative handful of people, Zoom calls featured little in the best way of password safety. With solely 9 to 11-digit identification codes, it was comparatively straightforward for hackers (and those with an excessive amount of free time) to punch in a random succession of numbers, flip up an precise video con ID and be a part of a name. Having efficiently entered the dialog, they might then bomb members with delicate and offensive materials, bombarding them homophobic, racist, and sexist content material.

This phenomenon has turn into referred to as Zoom bombings, and the corporate has struggled to curtail such exercise because the apps consumer base scaled quickly.

According to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, he and his crew at the moment are getting a deal with on the security deficiencies, as he advised CNNs Brian Stelter:

We expanded our service however ought to have enforced passwords, ready rooms and different security measures earlier. In the final two weeks, we took actions to repair those missteps. The new consumer circumstances are very completely different from our conventional enterprise clients, the place theyve IT for help.

The security is coming into place now, and we need to focus on education for consumers. For example, were in the process of working with the New York City School District to understand how to use the security settings, to make sure Zoom bombing does not happen again.

Since April 5, beforehand scheduled conferences (together with those scheduled through a bunchs Personal Meeting ID) may have password safety enabled. If attendees are becoming a member of through a gathering hyperlink, there shall be no change to their expertise, having access to the decision immediately. For attendees becoming a member of conferences by manually coming into a gathering ID quantity, theyll then must enter a password to entry the convention.

For Zoom hosts, the quantity of members of their ready room may be managed throughout the Manage Participants icon. Selecting the Manage Participants tab allows a full record of assembly members, with hosts capable of admit chosen people manually by clicking on the blue Admit button, or all directly with the Admit All choice on the highest right-hand facet of the display.

Zoom has additionally taken to reminding hosts to recurrently reshare the up to date assembly invitation hyperlink, to invited events solely. Users, alternatively, can examine on their recurrently scheduled conferences from the Meetings tab. Additionally, Zoom has exacted new options to safe the digital waiting room setting, which events can find out about by visiting right here.

These steps are only the start of the highway to consumer restoration for Zoom, with the prevalent sentiment being that these security fixes ought to go some technique to assuaging customers considerations concerning the apps security. Zooms end-to-end encryption has but to be totally sorted, so in the meanwhile, different video con apps in the identical digital area comparable to Jitsi, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Zoho, and GoToMeeting could be seeking to capitalize on Zooms early market dominance

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Every cloud has a silver lining, they say, and Italians do need to find some consolation, at a time when our usual life hangs in a sort of limbo, waiting to be reactivated. Its certainly a small thing, compared to the grief and losses of many, but the Coronavirus emergency is forcing citizens and institutions to come to terms with digital technologies, at last.

For many years, the country steadily ranked among the less advanced European countries in the Digital Economy and Society Index published by the European Commission. As of 2019, three out of ten people in Italy were not regular internet users yet, and more than half of the population still lacked basic digital skills. Only Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland fared worse. Thats very likely going to change.

Closed in their homes, not even allowed to take a stroll without carrying a self-signed document that explains where they are going, people are inventing new ways to stay together, work and have fun. Ways that, needless to say, rely on the Internet.

From theatres to museums, culture moves online

Lots of live events have been canceled, but culture doesnt stop. From Genoa to Turin, from Palermo to Milan and Parma, theaters have found alternative channels to communicate with their audience. Under the #iorestoacasa (I stay at home) hashtag the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa is streaming every day pearls from its archive: connect at 8 p.m. (CET) today, and Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker will be waiting for you, followed by La bohme, tomorrow. Opera and ballet are not your thing? What about some classical music, say Ludwig Van Beethoven directed by Zubin Metha? Theyve got you covered: just head to Palermos Teatro Massimo website to get that. The YouTube channel of Venices La Fenice is another unmissable bookmark if you want to enjoy some top-level shows for free. Museum and cultural institutions are also adapting. Milans Triennale is organizing every day on Instagram, "Decameron", a digital festival with well-know Italian authors, singers, writers and journalists telling their "stories" following in Boccaccios footsteps. The Museum of Modern Art of Bologna is creating short videos in which artists exhibiting at the museum explain the meaning and the work behind their creations.

Teachers brushing up their digital skills

Since schools of every order have been shut by the government, the small "Insegnanti 2.0" (teachers 2.0) closed Facebook group has seen an explosion in admission requests, skyrocketing to 36.900 members. Everyone is looking for advice, tutorials, quick tips on how to handle the emergency and avoid losing precious school days. "How do you share your PCs audio with Google Meet?," one member asks; "In my school, virtual classrooms have been canceled. The network couldnt cope," says another.

As in many other fields, Google here is dominating: many Italian schools have subscribed to its G-Suite for Education. Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Education A1 are also widespread. Both for privacy and ideological reasons (not everyone is happy with Big Techs access to school data) and for the perceived limits of these platforms, some are looking for open-source alternatives: Jitsi, Jami, are among the most widely mentioned videoconferencing tools and OBS Studio is going strong for screen capture and live streaming.

The numerous WiFi networks visible in an apartment building in Turin, Italy, on 11 March 2020, after ... [+] the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's decree "I rest home", applied from yesterday to 3 April. The decree made it possible for many Italians to work from home thanks to smart working. Italy has imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people to control the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Massimiliano Ferraro/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Besides mutual help on Facebook groups, theres no shortage of public and private initiatives aimed at helping teachers bridge their skills gap in the digital sector. The national TV broadcaster, for instance, has launched a new section on the "Learning" channel of RaiPlay, with short educational pills for teachers.

Following an agreement with the Ministry of Education, the famous Treccani encyclopedia has made freely available to schools and students its e-learning platform Treccani Scuola, to help them collaborate remotely. Will this in-depth immersion in new technologies leave any trace in teaching methodology when the emergence is over? Its too early to tell, and no one knows how long this period will last, anyway. Theoretically, schools should re-open in April, but much will depend on how the situation is evolving.

Remote working

For those that have been freelancing from home for a while, the current lockdown doesnt change much. But for many others, the need to turn to some sort of smart working to keep things going, implies a huge shift in mindset and process. More for companies than for employees, perhaps. While corporations are more open, Italian SMEs, that make the most of the countrys industrial fabric, have traditionally been wary of letting their employees work from home.

According to Eurostat data, in 2018 only 3,6% of employed people worked from home in Italy, compared to 14% in the Netherlands or 6,5% in France. The reasons are mainly cultural: Italian companies are highly hierarchical and bosses like to have their employees close, where they think they can better control them. Besides that, productivity is not always measured on achieved goals, but it is often confused with how many hours you spend at the office. With the result that people spend there much more time than in other countries - drinking coffee. The COVID-19 might have an impact on that.

New legislation introduced by the government during the first days of the lockdown allows companies to implement forms of smart working without the need of a previous agreement (as it was before). The financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore asked its LinkedIn followers to describe how their employers were taking advantage of the opportunity. The instant survey paints a black and white picture, with positive reviews as well as negative experiences by struggling white collars. Many commenters, however, on LinkedIn as well as in newspaper interviews, see the disruption brought by the virus as an opportunity to modernize the Italian workplace routine.

Not everyone could work from home but, according to some studies, more than 8 million people in Italy could benefit from that, up from 570,000 right now. If only a fraction of them would be involved, the landscape would change dramatically.

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Fox Sports 1 is using the video caller-based production platform from The Video Call Center (VCC) to extend its ability to bring key sports personalities and guests on the air.

Using the VCC platform, FS1 can bring guests live to air for two-way conversations using only the smartphone or other convenient devices available to the guest from anywhere in the world. Currently, the VCC platform is used throughout the week in the production of The Herd with Colin Cowherd.

The best technologies make a show better for the audience and the production team and the VCC does that remarkably well, said Fox Sports Senior Vice President of Production Whit Albohm. The video quality is excellent and the flexibility means we can put the best names in sports on-air any time with minimal preparation to talk about the most current topics of the day. Our producers and our talent appreciate the flexibility and ease of the VCC platform and that the VCC team members feel like part of our family.

The collaboration began when Colin Cowherds producers went looking for a more reliable two-way live video remote solution that would enhance, rather than impede, the show. With its ultra-low-latency, high quality, two-way video call connections, easy video call setup, and experienced video call production team, the VCC solution enables Cowherd to engage his guests in the lively back-and-forth banter that is the staple of the Herd style.

Flexibility and efficiency are the hallmarks of the VCC platform, providing FS1 with an effortless means of initiating live interviews with coaches and athletes, as well as Fox Sports correspondents. Remote participants only need a smartphone with standard mobile data or WiFi connection to appear on camera. Producers can establish first video in as little as 24 seconds via a text sent to the guest from VCCs StageDoor system. They never have to download software either, as the VCC uses standard native video calling capabilities built into all smartphones including Apple FaceTime and WebRTC-based Gruveo and Jitsi, as well as popular video call apps like Skype.

The Herd originates in LA, but during a given sports season producers need access to players and commentators spread all over the country with highly variable schedules.

The VCC service for FS1 combines VCCs expert production staff with patented technologies that together ensure long duration, stable connections with no lag that make natural, effortless conversation possible between host and guests. Monitors on the set at FS1 let the show host see their guest, while the VCCs exclusive instant return video makes sure that guests can also view the hosts on their phone, all in real-time.

We are thrilled to be supporting FS1 in creating some of the premier sports talk on the air today, said VCC CEO Larry Thaler. We think that the keys to the best live television are having access to the most relevant, recognizable voices and making it easy for them to have sustained, effortless, face-to-face conversation anytime, from anywhere. We look forward to supporting FS1 as it continues to innovate sports television.

Viewers can see VCC remotes on FS1 most weekdays, with the Herd airing as many as three live, VCC remote guest segments per show.

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PALISADES, N.Y.Colin Cowherds guests on his Fox Sports 1 showThe Herd With Colin Cowherdare dialing in with help from the Video Call Center. VCC announced that it has provided its caller-based production platform to the sports network, which enables two-way phone/video interviews to be established using only the guests smartphone or capable device.

Remote participants can utilize the VCC platform with a smartphone that has standard mobile data or a Wi-Fi connection to conduct a video interview. FS1 producers can establish the video connection via a text with VCCs StageDoor system. VCC uses standard native video calling capabilitiesavailable in smartphones that feature Apple FaceTime, WebRTC-based Gruveo and Jitsi, as well as video call apps like Skypewithout downloading software.

VCC also provides its production staff with patented technologies that help ensure durable, stable connections with no lag, according to VCC. The videos can be displayed on the sets monitors, while VCCs instant return video enables the guest to see the host on their phone in real time.

According to VCC, The Herd uses VCC for as many as three live remote guest segments per show.

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NEW CLARK CITY - It appears Team Philippines is saving its best for last.

The gold machine continues to grind for the host, who garnered 22 more on Monday for a new record high output in the Southeast Asian Games.

The contact sports of boxing and jui-jitsi provided almost half of the gold haul in the penultimate day of competitions in this 30th edition of the biggest Games ever.

World women's champion Nesthy Petecio stood at the forefront of the Filipino pugs' seven-gold romp while petite martial artist Meggie Ochoa, another world champion, bannered a three-gold at the start of jiu-jitsu's maiden stint in the biennal meet.

As the smoke of battle cleared, the Filipinos' hiked its record total to 137 gold medals - the most the country ever had since it started competing in the regional Games in 1977.

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The host also has also breached the 100-medal barrier in silver (102) and bronze (106) medals, making this overall championship a lot sweeter and memorable to the one first it had in 2005.

And the ending to the Filipinos most productive campaign ever could become even more unforgetable with breakthrough gold medals in women's basketball and men's volleyball, both of which will be gunning for history on Tuesday.

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Giving a last-minute thrill as the Games wind down to its final hours is the tight three-way battle for second place among Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

The Thais have suddenly surged to second belatedly as it may, sparked by victories in athletics, boxing, and other contact sports that brought their medal total at 84 golds, 90 silvers, and 101 bronzes.

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Just five golds behind are the Vietnamese at third with a 79-78-93 tally.

The Indons have fallen to fourth place with 69 golds, 76 silvers, and 102 bronzes, but remain very much capable of pulling surprises and challenge the Thais and Vietnamese for second place.

In a late development that warmed the hearts, Timor Leste finally bagged a silver medal courtesy of taekwondo while hiking its bronze medal tally to five.

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Open-source video conferencing is one of the few remaining glimpses of the utopian potential of the internet. If youre willing to get a little sentimental about what the internet is or was supposed to deliver, you can see it within the chat windows of apps such as Jitsiemerging technologies developed and given away for free so that anyone and everyone can participate in the digital communications revolution.

Thats the idealized version of Jitsis existence, anyway. The reality is that while the highly adaptable, open-source app is still free to use and deploy within personalized platforms, it has become something of a research and development unit for subscription content providers. So, Jitsi stands as a kind of glorified public Beta test of the latest video conferencing technology.

Its logical counterpoint in many ways is Appear.in (recently rechristened Whereby). This WebRTC-powered video platform has taken the same open-access ideals of Jitsi and turned them into a commercial subscription service.

The Appear.in vs. Jitsi clash is a living demonstration of how the internets free-to-all ideals have evolved into commercial reality.

Jitsi operates on two levels. If youre an end-user in need of a free video conferencing service, it has the flexibility and features to provide just about everything youll need to conduct a social or professional group meeting. If your ambitions extend to creating your own video calling portal, it can be deployed within a website or an Android or iOS mobile app to give you control over how people interact with your domain.

The platform operated as an independent, open-source meeting point until it was bought by Atlassian in 2015. That company had plans to use Jitsis tech to power native video in its HipChat and Stride services, but when those were bought and scuttled by Slack, the service became unnecessary. So, in 2018 Jitsi was sold to video vendor 88. This new owner has promised to continue acting as a benefactor for the free service and its creators while using the Jitsi tech to boost its own paid WebRTC, video calling, and video bridging services.

Why would 88 give away the same Jitsi technology it is trying to sell in its own product? Because theres a downside to the open-source ideal. Open-source means going it alone, as theres no reliable revenue stream to fund dedicated infrastructure. Jitsi doesnt offer any commercial support for its products, and many of its features exist in a state of developmental flux. The app has free background blur and live streaming features, for example, but theyre firmly in the Beta mode, while it offers only clever workarounds to deliver video conferencing standards such as meeting recording (it recommends you stream your meeting to YouTube and use that sites recording function).

Such drawbacks make Jitsi a potentially unreliable and cumbersome option for business clients and restrict the service to developers with superior IT skills and casual users with limited ambitionswhich is why the creative teams behind digital communication services need to find a revenue source for their endeavors.

Just like Appear.in (Whereby) has done.

Appear.in (Whereby) is like Jitsis mature older sibling that took the shared passion for WebRTC communication and turned it into a commercial business.

The platform, which changed its name to Whereby after a legal battle over the Appear.in moniker, uses the same browser-based WebRTC technology that allows users to stage instant video meetings online without accounts or downloads. As we discussed in our previous reviews of Wherebyhere as a standalone service, and here in comparison with Googles Hangouts platformthe result is a lightning-quick service that removes the barriers of subscription services and lets anyone with a common browser speak face-to-face across a reliable video connection.

Whereby (that name is going to take some getting used to) has since evolved into a subscription business that offers the support professional customers require. Just like Jitsi, it offers chat, screen sharing, group video calls (although capped at four in the limited free version and 12 in the Pro Plan), customizable meeting URLs, and encrypted connections. Unlike Jitsi, theres someone available online 24/7 should you run into technical difficulties.

Such a backstop should make Whereby a clear winner over Jitsis community of developers, but the execution just isnt there. Theres no noticeable difference between the presentation of either product, and Jitsi actually offers a more comprehensive list of features, including emerging must-have video features like live streaming. Both services can be integrated with leading workflow platforms including Slack, but in Wherebys case, youre doubling your subscription fee just to add a video calling alternative to the baked-in native options of a collaboration platform.

Truthfully, if youre choosing between these platforms, you face an underwhelming decision between an earnest amateur and a clumsy professional.

On a sheer product-to-product comparison, wed have to give the open-source platform the edge in any Appear.in vs. Jitsi digital bout. However, there are clear differences between the target audiences for each that may make such comparisons moot.

Jitsi is for developers and casual users. If you want to build your own video-enabled website or you just want a free, universally accessible way to video chat, then Jitsi is for you. If you are looking for a commercial tool, youd have to go with Appear.in/Whereby. Unless your IT team is prepared to shoulder the entire tech support burden, it is irresponsible to deploy an open-source platform.

In the end, both services are probably more flash than substance for a small-to-medium businesss liking. Wed suggest you take a look at Zoom, BlueJeans, or the workflow integration of Microsoft Teams before making your final decision.

Still, its nice to know that a little of the internets free-to-all ideals live on in the open-source and WebRTC roots of both Jitsi and Whereby.

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What is Jitsi? (from the publisher)

Jitsi is Open Source / Free Software, and is available under the terms of the LGPL. Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! and many other useful features.

The most common release is 2.4.4997, with over 98% of all installations currently using this version. During setup, the program creates a startup registration point in Windows in order to automatically start when any user boots the PC. Upon being installed, the software adds a Windows Service which is designed to run continuously in the background. Manually stopping the service has been seen to cause the program to stop functing properly. It adds a background controller service that is set to automatically run. Delaying the start of this service is possible through the service manager. It adds a Browser Helper Object (BHO) to Internet Explorer. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The setup package generally installs about 126 files. Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 10. While about 39% of users of Jitsi come from the United States, it is also popular in France and Germany.

Help link: jitsi.org

Installation folder: C:Program Filesjitsijrelibziamerica

Uninstaller: MsiExec.exe /I{45A78051-9B86-40D4-9D4E-77436F9EC5F8}

(The Windows Installer is used for the installation, maintenance, and removal.)

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Acquisition of open-source video communications technology and engineering team reinforces 8x8s technology stack and unique ability to deliver best-in-class meetings experience

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT), a leading cloud provider of voice, video, collaboration and contact center solutions for over one million users worldwide, today announced that it has acquired the Jitsi open source video communications technology and its highly skilled team of open source video technology experts. The Jitsi technology further extends 8x8s cloud technology platform and adds to the companys video collaboration capabilities. 8x8 acquired Jitsis technology and engineering team from leading enterprise software company Atlassian.

The best video communications solutions are so intuitive and reliable that they help employees conduct shorter, more productive meetings. 8x8 has already developed a world-class meetings solution for enterprises, and were focused on maintaining leadership in delivering reliable, crystal-clear video and audio conferencing quality across mobile and desktop applications, said Dejan Deklich, Chief Product Officer at 8x8. Incorporating Jitsis open-source technology into our video communications technology platform, and having Jitsis talented engineering team play a role in leading our development of dedicated conferencing applications and WebRTC, will open new paths for our customers and further enhance our meetings solution.

8x8 is acquiring Jitsis set of modular open-source projects that allow businesses to easily build and deploy secure video communication solutions. At the heart of Jitsi is the Jitsi Videobridge conferencing server and Jitsi Meet conferencing and collaboration application. Jitsi is designed to run thousands of video streams from a single server, and it's fully open source with a community of developers supporting the project as well as 100 percent standards compliant using technologies like WebRTC. Jitsis video communications technology will remain open source, ensuring that Jitsi stays in the forefront of Video Conferencing industry developments, including new application use cases.

Some of the most innovative WebRTC products and companies use Jitsi to support millions of minutes of daily usage as part of their meetings, messaging and collaboration product ecosystems. The open source community has played a critical role in advancing Jitsis projects by validating its use in a diverse set of environments and complementing the core teams development. As part of this acquisition, 8x8 is committed to continuing to support the growing developer community, and we are excited to engage even more, commented Bryan Martin, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at 8x8.

Jitsis video communication solutions are intended to be integrated into 8x8 Meetings, which already enables thousands of businesses worldwide to collaborate from anywhere on any device with integrated video and audio conferencing. 8x8 Meetings is a key element of 8x8 X Series, which helps businesses transform their customer and employee experience with one system of engagement across voice, video, collaboration and contact center, and one system of intelligence on a single cloud platform. With 8x8 X Series, businesses communicate faster and smarter to exceed customer expectations.

We are excited that 8x8 will continue to support the extensive Jitsi community and help to accelerate our development, said Emil Ivov, Jitsi Founder and Project Lead. I have no doubt that Jitsis advanced capabilities combined with 8x8s comprehensive X Series platform will create a dominant video communications solution that is intuitive and game-changing for enterprises.

The financial terms of the acquisition are not disclosed.

8x8 was recently named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide. This marks the seventh consecutive year that 8x8 has been recognized as a Leader. To download a copy of the report, visit https://www.8x8.com/resources/white-papers/gartner-magic-quadrant

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Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

Jitsi started life as a way to talk to people over the internet using audio and video. Over the course of a decade, though, its become so much more. Today, Jitsi is:

A vibrant developer community.

First and foremost, Jitsi is a community of developers that are pushing the envelope of video conferencing quality on the web. Come join us!

The foundation of some really amazing products.

Our community members have developed countless projects and products that started with Jitsi code. Check em out!

A crazy-good, completely free video conferencing solution that anyone can use.

Jitsi is a favorite videoconferencing solution for anyone with privacy concerns, journalists, for example. Theres a reason so many people use Jitsi Meet as a Skype alternative for video conferencing. Try it out and download it for free.

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Jitsi is a set of open source projects that allow you to build a secure video conference system for your team. The core components of the Jitsi project are Jitsi VideoBridge and Jitsi Meet. There are free and premium services that based on Jitsi projects, such as HipChat, Stride, Highfive, Comcast.

Jitsi Meet is the heart of the Jitsi family, its an open source JavaScript WebRTC application that allows you to build and deploy scalable video conference. Its build on top of some jitsi projects, including jitsi videobridge, jifoco, and jigasi.

It has featured video conference, such as desktop and presentation sharing, invite a new member to join a video conference with just a link, and enable collaboration editing using the Etherpad.

In this tutorial, I will show you how toinstall your own video conference server using Jitsi meet on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. We will install jitsi meet from the official jitsi repository and make the Nginx web server as a reverse proxy for jitsi services and then secure our jitsi installation using SSL HTTPS.

The first step we need to do before deploying jitsi meet to our server is by installing java OpenJDK to the system. At least, we need to get the java version 1.8 for jitsi applications installation, and we will install the Java OpenJDK packages from the PPA repository.

Add the OpenJDK PPA repository and install the Java OpenJDK using the apt command below.

Now check the Java OpenJDK version when all installation is complete.

And you will get the java OpenJDK 1.8 installed on the Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In this tutorial, the Nginx web server will be used as a reverse proxy for the jitsi meet application.

Install Nginx web server using the apt command below.

Now start the nginx service and enable it to launch every time on system boot.

The Nginx web server installation has been completed - it's running on default HTTP port 80.

In this step, we will install jitsi meet packages from the official jitsi repository. We will be using a domain named 'meet.hakase-labs.io' for our installation.

Add jitsi key and repository to the system using the command below.

Now update the repository and install jitsi meet packages.

Through the jitsi meet installation, you will be asked about two things:

Now we're done for the jitsi meet installation. All packages including jitsi videobridge, jicofo, and nginx virtual host have been automatically installed and setup.

Jitsi meet provides an automatic script for SSL Letsencrypt installation and configuration.

Run the letsencrypt script provided by jitsi meet.

The script will install the letsencrypt tool on the server, generate SSL certificates for the jitsi meet domain name 'meet.hakase-labs.io' etc. you need to enter an email address for the Letsencrypt expired notification.

And it will generate all SSL certificates for the jitsi meet domain name in the '/etc/letsencrypt/live' directory.

In this step, we will configure the UFW firewall for the jitsi meet installation. We will open the SSH, HTTP, HTTPS service ports, and open the other range port that needed by jitsi meet 10000/20000 UDP port.

Open those ports by running UFW commands.

Now enable the UFW firewall and reload all configuration.

The UFW firewall configuration is complete.

We will do two testing through the web browser and an android application that can be downloaded from Google Play.

Open the jitsi meet installation domain name meet.hakase-labs.io and you can see the jitsi meet default home page.

Type the room name you want to create and click the 'GO' blue button.

And your browser will ask you for the microphone and camera use permission.

Click 'Allow'.

Now you've already joined to the room.

Another screenshot: the Desktop sharing between all members.

Download the jitsi meet application from Google Playand join the room.

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Jitsi is cross-platform, free and open-source software client that supports Instant Messaging (IM), voice and video chat over the internet. It supports many of the most popular and widely used IM and telephony protocols, including Jabber/XMPP (used by Facebook and Google Talk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and the SIP Voice-over-IP (VoIP) protocol. It supports additional independent encryption for IM through the OTR (Off-the-Record) protocol and for voice and video sessions through ZRTP and SRTP.

Jitsi is cross-platform, free and open-source software client for Instant Messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) and video chat. It is compatible with many popular IM and telephony protocols, including Jabber/XMPP, Facebook Messenger, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and SIP. It provides end-to-end encryption for text chats through the Off-the-Record (OTR) protocol. It also supports end-to-end encrypted voice chat using ZRTP over SIP, though it tends to be somewhat unstable when used in this way.

Important: If you and those with whom you communicate use OTR encryption for text chats and ZRTP encryption for voice calls, Jitsi will protect the content of your conversations from service providers like Google and Facebook. However, these providers can still monitor certain metadata about the conversations you have through Jitsi. Examples include:

They can share this information with third parties, including other companies and governments. For conversations where such metadata could be sensitive, you and those with whom you communicate should consider using a trusted, independent service provider for your XMPP/Jabber chats and SIP calls.

Jitsi allows you to communicate securely through your existing accounts by using end-to-end encryption. This not only makes the content of your communication inaccessible to various third parties, such as government or corporate surveillance platforms, but it also protects your conversations from those who operate the chat services themselves (such as Facebook, if you are using Facebook Messenger, or Google, if you are using Google Talk).

Note: Jitsi was written in the Java programming language. As such, Java must be installed on your computer in order for it to work. Though Java itself does not represent a significant security risk, Java browser extensions are often found to contain vulnerabilities that allow malicious websites to install malware or assume control of your computer. If your browser has a Java plugin installed, we strongly recommend that you disable it.

Jitsi is available for MS Windows, GNU Linux and Mac OS. It can be used to communicate with other XMPP or SIP clients that support end-to-end encryption through OTR (for text chat) or ZRTP (for voice calls). Examples are recommended below:

To install Jitsi, follow the steps below:

Step 1. Browse to the Jitsi download page: https://jitsi.org/Main/Download

Figure 1: The Jitsi download page

Step 2. Scroll down and click [Microsoft Windows Installers] to download Jitsi.

Figure 2: Downloading the Jitsi package

Step 3. Right-click on the downloaded Jitsi file and select [Open], as illustrated below:

Figure 3: Opening the downloaded Jitsi file

Step 4. Click [Next] to start installing Jitsi on your computer.

Figure 4: Jitsi Setup Wizard

Step 5. Read Jitsi's License Agreement and check [I accept the terms in the License Agreement].

Figure 5: Jitsi End-User License Agreement

Step 6. Click [Next] to proceed with the installation process.

Step 7. Click [Next] to install Jitsi to the default folder. Alternatively, click [Change...] to select the folder you would like to install Jitsi to.

Figure 6: Jitsi installation destination folder

Step 8. Select shortcuts, settings and associated protocols through the following window and click [Next]. The default settings here are fine.

Figure 7: Jitsi Setup Wizard Addtional Tasks

Step 9. Click [Install] to install Jitsi on your computer.

Figure 8: Installation of Jitsi

Wait while Jitsi gets installed.

Figure 9: Installing Jitsi

Step 10. Click [Finish] to complete the installation process.

Figure 10: Completing the installation process of Jitsi

Jitsi supports many different protocols and services for chat. The first time you launch it, you will see the window shown in Figure 1, which allows you to add the accounts you want to access through Jitsi.

Figure 1: Jitsi's initial account configuration screen

Note: Both Google Talk and Facebook may require that you change certain account settings before you can access their chat services through Jitsi. To learn how, see the following two sections:

You can use this screen to enter a username and password for each of the services displayed, thereby adding up to four accounts in one easy step. But you must already have accounts on these services to do so. The sections below describe how to set up accounts for various IM and VoIP service providers.

As shown in Figure 1 of the previous section, the first time you launch Jitsi, you will see an account configuration screen that allows you to add various chat services to the application. After you have added at least one account, this screen will no longer appear. In order to add additional accounts, follow the steps below.

Step 1. Click [File] in Jitsi's menu bar and select [Add new account...] to choose the service or protocol you want to use.

Figure 1: Adding a new account

Step 2. Select [Google Talk] from the Network list.

Figure 2: Selecting Google Talk

Step 3. Type your Google username and passphrase.

Figure 3: Entering a Google username and password

Step 4. (Optional) Uncheck the Remember password box

Important: If you want Jitsi to remember your passphrases for you, you should first enable its Master Password feature.

Step 5. Click [Add].

You can now use Jitsi to communicate through the Google Talk account you have added.

Note: If you are using 2-step verification to protect access to your Gmail account, you might see an error like the one shown in Figure 4 when Jitsi tries to access your account. (It will display the same error if you get your passphrase wrong.) To log in using Jitsi, you will need to generate an "application-specific password". To learn how, see Google's instructions.

Figure 4: Google Talk authentication failed (possibly as a result of "2-step verification" settings)

There are two settings that you might need to change, on the Facebook website, for Jitsi to use Facebook as a chat service.

Facebook Username

Before Jitsi can connect to Facebook, you must assign a username to your Facebook account. Unlike most Web services, Facebook does not require you to select a username when you create your account, but it does allow you to create one if you wish. You can confirm your username by signing into your Facebook account. Your username is what appears in the location bar of your browser after https://www.facebook.com/ when you view your Timeline or Page. So, if your username is elena.s.katerina, you should see https://www.facebook.com/elena.s.katerina in your browser's location bar when viewing your Timeline. Your username is also part of your Facebook email address (elena.s.katerina@facebook.com, for example).

If you do not have a Facebook username, you can choose one by signing into your account and selecting Settings > General or by browsing to https://www.facebook.com/username. Facebook might require that you verify your account before allowing you to select a username. This might require giving Facebook a mobile phone number at which you can receive a text message. For more details see Facebooks explanation of usernames.

App Settings

You must turn on Facebooks application platform in order to give Jitsi access to your account. To do this, sign in, select Settings > Apps and confirm that the Apps, Websites and Plugins setting is Enabled.

Note: Turning on Facebooks application platform opens up much of your Facebook data to third-party application developers. This data is available not only to the Facebook applications that you use, but also to the Facebook applications used by your friends. After turning on Facebooks Apps, Websites and Plugins, be sure to check the settings under Apps others use. This setting allows you to hide some personal information from applications used by your friends. Unfortunately, Facebook does not offer settings to hide all personal information. As long as the application platform is Enabled, certain categories of data (including your friend list, your gender, and any information you have made public) are accessible to apps used by others. If this is unacceptable, you should disable Apps, Websites and Plugins and avoid using Jitsi with Facebook Messenger.

Once you have chosen a Facebook username and enabled the application platform, you can add your Facebook account to Jitsi.

As shown in Figure 1 of the Add accounts to Jitsi section, the first time you launch Jitsi, you will see an account configuration screen that allows you to add various chat services to the application. After you have added at least one account, this screen will no longer appear. In order to add additional accounts, follow the steps below.

Step 1. Click [File] in Jitsi's menu bar and select [Add new account...] to choose the service or protocol you want to use.

Figure 1: Adding a new account

Step 2. Select [Facebook] from the Network list.

Figure 2: Selecting Facebook

Step 3. Type your Facebook username and password.

Figure 3: Entering a username and password into the Add New Account screen

Step 4. (Optional) Uncheck the Remember password box.

Important: If you want Jitsi to remember your passphrases for you, you should first enable its Master Password feature.

Step 5. Click [Add].

You can now use Jitsi to communicate through the Facebook account you have added.

XMPP and Jabber are different names for the same instant messaging protocol. It is an open standard, and there are many providers who offer free Jabber/XMPP accounts that you can use with Jitsi. The IM Observatory allows you to evaluate some security properties of public Jabber/XMPP services.

If you have experience running online services, you can also install a Jabber/XMPP server (such as ejabberd or Prosody IM) on your own server and provide accounts to members of a particular community or organization.

Below, we recommend a few services that have a great deal of experience protecting their users' privacy.

Note: Even if you trust your service provider, It is still important that you use OTR encryption to keep your instant messages confidential. So make sure that you and those with whom you communicate know how to use it properly. This is covered in the section on Using Jitsi for secure instant messaging

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hosts a free Jabber service. Their servers are located in Germany. From within Jitsi, you can simultaneously create an account on jabber.ccc.de and add it to Jitsi. This works for many traditional Jabber/XMPP services.

Step 1. Click [File] in Jitsi's menu bar and select [Add new account...] to choose the service or protocol you want to use.

Figure 1: Add new accounts

Step 2. Select [XMPP] from the Network list.

Figure 2: Selecting XMPP

The steps below assume that you do not yet have a jabber.ccc.de account. (If you do, just enter your username and passphrase and click [Add].)

Step 3. Select [Create a new XMPP account].

Figure 3: Creating a new jabber.ccc.de account, within Jitsi, using the Add New Account screen

Step 4. Type [jabber.ccc.de] in the Server box.

Step 5. Choose a username and type it into the XMPP username box.

Step 6. Choose a passphrase and type it into the Password and Confirm Password boxes.

Step 7. Click [Add] to request the username you have chosen.

If the username you requested is unavailable, the registration process will fail, and Jitsi will announce that it: failed to create your account due to the following error: Could not confirm data. You can try again by repeating the process with a different username.

If you do not log in to your jabber.ccc.de account for 12 months, your account will be removed, and your username will be made available for registration by others.

Riseup is a collective dedicated to providing secure services for individuals and organizations committed to political and social justice. Their servers are located in the United States.

If you already have a Riseup.net email account, you can use the same account for their Jabber/XMPP service. In order to create an account, you will need two invitation codes from two different Riseup.net members. You can then visit https://user.riseup.net and create an account. Once your account is active, you can add it to Jitsi by following the steps below.

As shown in Figure 1 of the Add accounts to Jitsi section, the first time you launch Jitsi, you will see an account configuration screen that allows you to add various chat services to the application. After you have added at least one account, this screen will no longer appear. In order to add additional accounts, follow the steps below.

Step 1. Click [File] in Jitsi's menu bar and select [Add new account...] to choose the service or protocol you want to use.

Figure 1: Adding new accounts

Step 2. Select [XMPP] from the Network list.

Figure 2: Selecting XMPP

Step 3. Type the username for your Jabber/XMPP account on this service.

Figure 3: Entering a username and password into the Add New Account screen

Your username should include the **@** symbol and the hostname of the service. For example

Step 4. Type the passphrase for your Jabber/XMPP account on this service.

Step 5. (Optional) Uncheck the Remember password box.

Important: If you want Jitsi to remember your passphrases for you, you should first enable its Master Password feature.

Step 6. Click [Add].

You can now use Jitsi to communicate through this Jabber/XMPP account.

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Featured questions (hide)

How do I get the latest Jitsi source code?

You could either clone the Git repository from GitHub (see Retrieving and Building the Sources for details) or use one of the nightly source snapshots (check the Download page).

Ive discovered a bug, what can I do?

Please, report it to the developers!Take a look at the Reporting bugs guidelines page describing the steps to report bugs effectively.

Where is the user profile directory?

Jitsis user profile directory is where Jitsi keeps its configuration, logs, etc. Its location depends on the operating system.

Where do I find the log files?

The easiest way to get hold of the log files is to save them to a location of your choice using Jitsis GUI. You can do so by clicking on ToolsOptions (JitsiPreferences on OS X), then selecting the Advanced tab and opening the Logging form. Youll see the Archive Logs button in there.

Check out the screenshot for an even better description.

Important Note: When asked for logs, please make sure that you provide the full set of logs, or better yet, the zip that Jitsi generates when following the above instructions. Please do not send separate files or file snippets as those are likely to be insufficient. If you need to provide the logs for a GitHub issue, send them to Dev Mailing List and link to the thread in the archive or create a Gist and link to it. Please DO NOT paste the log as a comment.

Otherwise, if you really want to know, the log files are located in:

Where is the configuration file?

Jitsis main configuration file is called sip-communicator.properties and is in the user profile directory.

How do you spell Jitsi and what does it mean?

The correct spelling of the application name is Jitsi (jitsi also works). The origin of the name is Bulgarian (spelled ). It means wires and the point is that the application allow you to connect to many network and people just as wires do. Of course no one other than Bulgarians is supposed to know what this means and we picked the name mainly because it was short and sounded good.

Id like to see a new feature in Jitsi, can you do that for me?

Yes, developers take feature requests into account. Send an email to the development list with a detailed description of the requested feature. After we examine its feasibility and decide whether it can be included in the Jitsi distributions you would likely be asked to open a ticket in our issue tracker. It is worth mentioning though, that handling feature requests is highly dependent of the developers availability and there is no guarantee that all requests will be satisfied.

How do I subscribe to mailing lists?

Please visit the Mailing Lists page to learn more about Jitsis mailing lists.

How do I contact the project developers?

You can ask questions concerning usage of the Jitsi on the dev mailing list (Note that the mailing lists are moderated, so, unless you subscribe to them, there may be a delay before your post shows up). For all urgent queries you could also use IRC at irc.freenode.net, channel #jitsi.

How do I send a patch?

Mail patches to the dev mailing list, with a subject line that contains the word PATCH in all uppercase, for example

A patch submission should contain one logical change; please dont mix N unrelated changes in one submission, send N separate emails instead.

The patch itself should be generated from within the project root directory using unified diff format. The following example shows one way to generate it:

You should give your patch files meaningful names. For instance if you fix a socket bug in the foo class do not call your patch file patchfile.txt but instead call it foo-socket.patch.

If the patch implements a new feature, make sure to describe the feature completely in your mail; if the patch fixes a bug, describe the bug in detail and give a reproduction recipe. An exception to these guidelines is when the patch addresses a specific issue in the issues database in that case, just make sure to refer to the issue number in your log message.

Note that unless you are describing a change rather than posting one, we would probably need you to sign our contributor agreement as either an individual or a corporation

I would like to update this wiki - what can I do?

Currently, only project developers are permitted to update the wiki. Please send your suggested changes to the dev mailing list.

A wiki page can be updated by appending the string ?action=edit to the current url and refreshing the page. The page will then be displayed with an extra menu line that includes a Page Edit item.

If you click on the Page Edit item, you will be redirected to a logon page. Enter your developer username and password and you should be redirected back to the original page. Click on Page Edit again to access the source content of the page (a quick reference to wiki markup syntax is also displayed).

Why cant I connect to ekiga.net?

NB: the problems described in this section also apply to other providers such as 1und1.de

Short Answer: The ekiga.net SIP servers are configured in a way that prevent Jitsi (and many other SIP user agents for that matter) to register with the service. Please use iptel.org or ippi.com instead.

Slightly Longer Answer: The service at ekiga.net is configured to only accept SIP REGISTER requests that contain a public IP address in their Contact header. This means that registration from Jitsi would fail unless you actually have a public IP address. The Ekiga client circumvents this by using STUN to learn the address and port that have been allocated for the current session. It then uses the pair in the SIP Contact header. This kind of use was common for the first version of the STUN protocol defined in RFC 3489 which was sometimes referred to as classic STUN.

The IETF has since significantly reviewed the way STUN should be used. The new version of the protocol is now defined in RFC 5389 which, among other things, advises against the use of STUN as a standalone NAT traversal utility:

Today STUN represents one of the tools used by complete traversal mechanisms such as SIP OUTBOUND (RFC 5626) or ICE (RFC 5245). Neither of these includes sending a STUN obtained address in a Contact header.

So, where does Jitsi currently stand on all this? At the time of writing, we support the ICE protocol but only use it with XMPP. Use with SIP is likely to come in the near future. The reason we havent implemented it yet is that most SIP servers currently open to use over the Internet, use a technique called latching. When such servers detect you are connecting from behind a NAT, they would start acting as a relay, receiving media from your peers and then forwarding it to you (and vice versa). While this is by far the most reliably way of traversing NATs, it does indeed imply some scalability constraints.

ICE on the other hand would only fall back to relaying if no other way was found to connect the two participants. This is why it is considered as a more optimal solution and why its also on our roadmap.

Note however that the constraints on ekiga.net would continue preventing Jitsi from connecting even when we do implement support for ICE.

Why do I see ICE failed errors when trying to make calls.

Jitsi implements a number of NAT traversal methods as described here. In many situations we will be able to setup a call directly between you and other users but in order to be able to reliably establish calls, your XMPP or SIP provider has to provide relaying capabilities such as TURN, Jingle Nodes or . If looking for services that support these you can try jit.si or ippi. Also note that both you and your partner need to have unhindered outgoing UDP access to the Internet or at least to your VoIP service provider. You DO NOT however need to map any port numbers on your home router. At best this is going to have no effect.

Does Jitsi support STUN? (and how about TURN, UPnP and Jingle Nodes?)

STUN, together with TURN, Jingle Nodes, IPv6 and UPnP, is one of the techniques that Jitsi uses as part of the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol to handle NAT traversal for calls made over XMPP.

For its SIP calls, Jitsi currently relies on servers to relay media (a technique also known as Hosted NAT Traversal or latching, which would be the case of the majority of the SIP servers used on the Internet today. Note that in terms of reliability Hosted NAT Traversal gives the same results as use of ICE. It even works better in some ways because the connection is setup immediately and no time is waisted for gathering candidates and making connectivity checks. The only downside of HNT is that it may put a strain on SIP providers requiring more bandwidth. This could become a problem especially in environments with a high number of all IP high quality video calls.

It is likely that ICE support for SIP calls would also be added to Jitsi in 2014 especially since this would also help with WebRTC compatibility.

Standalone support for STUN is NOT going to be part of Jitsi. Check out the ekiga entry for more information on the shortcomings of STUN as a standalone NAT traversal utility.

I have a few questions regarding ZRTP, SRTP and VoIP security in general. Where can I find some answers?

Check out our ZRTP FAQ.

Why does my call stay in the Initiating Call status and I can never connect?

A common reason for providers not to respond to calls is that they simply dont get the INVITE request Jitsi sends to them. This can happen if you are using UDP. The Jitsi INVITE requests may often exceed the maximum allowed packet size (MTU) for your network or that of your server. In such cases packets may be fragmented by your IP stack and fragmentation for UDP does not always work well in certain networks. This is what happens when a client supports multiple features ;). To resolve the issue you can do one of the following:

How does on-line provisioning work?

On-line provisioning is the feature that allows Jitsi to connect to an http URI every time it starts and retrieve part or all of its configuration there. On-line provisioning is often used by providers to remotely configure the clients they maintain. It can be used to set any property in Jitsi such as the codecs used, the features that users can manually configure and even protocol accounts.

When requesting its provisioning information Jitsi can transmit any of a number of parameters to the server, like for example: the OS it is running on, user credentials, a unique ID and others. This way the provisioning server can fine-tune the parameters it sends to Jitsi.

For more information, please check our on-line provisioning manual(approve sites)

Are my chat sessions protected and if so, how?

Jitsi supports the OTR encryption protocol. OTR stands for Off-the-Record Messaging and once youve set it up (i.e. clicked on that padlock icon in a chat window and verified the identity of your contact) it allows you to make sure that no one other than you two can read your messages, not even your service provider. You can find more on the OTR mechanisms here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging

Should logging be disabled by default when using OTR?

By default Jitsi stores all chats so that if you need any information from them it would always be available. If you would like to disable this behavior you can currently do so by opening Jitsis Options/Preferences, selecting the General pane and then unchecking the Log chat history option near the top. It is also possible to disable chats for specific contacts, to erase their history. An indicator in the chat window makes it aware at all times whether history is on or off while chatting with someone.

OTR protected chats follow the same pattern and some users have expressed concerns that this might be incompatible with their security expectations. Our position on this is that Jitsis role is to protect your communication. We also strive to offer usability. The current defaults represent these objectives: most people would prefer for their private communication not to be readable by third parties and most of the time people use Jitsi from personal devices where they are in control of the access policy.

In some cases users may wish for their communications not to be stored locally. This can be the case when using Jitsi on devices that others may also have access to. In such cases users need to be able to easily see whether history is being logged. They would also need to easily turn this off and potentially even erase previous history.

Note however that this subject is entirely different from the encryption one. They are separate measures meant to protect you against separate attacks or problems. We dont believe that the need for one would necessarily imply the need for the other. We are hence committed to also keeping that separation in the user interface.

Force SIP Message support.

Some SIP servers (Asterisk in particular) do not announce the MESSAGE support, despite supporting it. If you enable the account property FORCE_MESSAGING, Jitsi will attempt to use MESSAGE for chats, despite your configured SIP server not explicitly announcing this support to connected clients. For example, if your SIP account is john.smith@example.com, go to property editor type that in the search field and look for something like

net.java.sip.communicator.impl.protocol.sip.acc0123456789.ACCOUNT_UID with the value SIP:john.smith@example.com

The property to add in that case would be:

net.java.sip.communicator.impl.protocol.sip.acc0123456789.FORCE_MESSAGING with the value true.

How to add/edit configuration properties.

You can do so by clicking on ToolsOptions (JitsiPreferences on OS X), then selecting the Advanced tab and opening the Property Editor form. There you can search edit/delete or create new properties.

Is there an an Android version of Jitsi?

Yes, but it is still in an early alpha stage and further development has been put on hold until further notice. A lot of the user interface is not yet implemented. You can find the apk on the Download page.

Is there an iPhone/iPad version of Jitsi?

No. Due to the restrictions imposed by the platform it is highly unlikely this answer is going to change.

The cc-buildloop target of ant fails with the following error message: Could not create task or type of type: junitreport.

On some Linux distributions such as Debian, the ant package is actualy subdivided into multiple packages. So when you chose to install junit and ant with the distribution specific package system, dont forget to install ant-optional too.

The cc-buildloop target of ant fails with the following error message: No test with id=IcqProtocolProviderSlick.

Have you created your own accounts.properties file in the lib directory? Youll need to define two ICQ test accounts at least, and preferably some test accounts for the other supported protocols.

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