XMPP Service Operators - 2022-11-21

Is here some admin of jabber.calyxinstitute.org? Their server is outdated. Prosody 0.10.0. Some ppl of my server cant send messages to them. With a test account i too cant write messages.

https://compliance.conversations.im/server/jabber.calyxinstitute.org/

Yea they kind of abandoned it

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huxxer, they basically said they have no intent to maintain it, and it was never meant to be used seriously

I'd avoid it and use a different server

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Why is it even up still?

Lol ok. Why they dont shut it down or disable registering

Sapotaceae, maybe it's more effort to take it down than leave it up? :P

Ok i will it my User. Thanks

Well anyone who wants to could take it down with https://www.moparisthebest.com/eatxmempp-cve-2021-32918/ so maybe they are just waiting for someone else to do it for them? (Don't actually do this lol)

I will add their server to my server blacklist 🙂

Are they hiring?

https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/digital-services/xmpp

The site tells the user that their server is highly secure

unable to send/recieve messages is indeed peak security

lol

😅

huh they even still advertise a v2 onion on that page

> The server allows in-band registration so you can create an account from within a standard client such as Pidgin or Adium or ChatSecure on Android or Apple iOS.

huxxer, today you learned: not everything people write on web pages is true :)

Chatsecure is also dead for a pretty long time, especially the Android version. :D

> huxxer, today you learned: not everything people write on web pages is true :) And if there is no time stamp you better assume it's outdated. :D

> huxxer, today you learned: not everything people write on web pages is true :) 😋

wait, what

Their about page has a section called ‘What we do’: > The Calyx Institute is a technology non-profit with the mission of developing, testing and distributing free privacy software, as well as working to bridge the digital divide. and at the bottom of the same page: » https://facebook.com/calyxinstitute » https://instagram.com/calyxinsta …make sense

they're pretty big, take in like $4 million a year too

Really?

Income Annual Report 2020-2021: $3,325,078 from Memberships; $14,860 from Donations; $151,021 from Workplace Giving & In-kind Support

the memberships are in exchange for twice marked up phones or sprint subsidized lte hotspots

page 7 of the same document they mention their ‘conferenceing server that provides chat service using XMPP’. hm……

> huxxer: > 2022-11-21 11:17 (CST) > Is here some admin of jabber.calyxinstitute.org? Their server is outdated. Prosody 0.10.0. Some ppl of my server cant send messages to them. With a test account i too cant write messages. Anyone try emailing them? (The Calyx Institute)

Weren't they also the one without modern features, in exchange for more privacy?

Possibly

I think they even associate with riseup.net

If yes.. switching to matrix isn't an option at least.. I suppose they will just disable it then and say use signal.

All of their chatrooms are already on matrix

Yep the main server too. Its funny how they went from xmpp with otr to matrix.org with all the metadata issues. I wonder how they rationalized it.

Their irc bridge is awful, you never know to whom you talk, puppeteering and such. Let alone no history,,.

The Calix Institute is government sponsored. For the American budget, 4 million is a small amount

*X-files theme starts playing*

Their Merrill fellow fought some nasty gov stuff in the past, so...

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