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26 lines
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Conversations is a messenger for the next decade. Based on already established
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internet standards that have been around for over ten years Coversations isn’t
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trying to replace current commercial messengers. It will simply outlive them.
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Commercial, closed source products are coming and going. 15 years ago we had
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ICQ which was replaced by Skype. MySpace was replaced by Facebook. WhatsApp and
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Hangouts will disapear soon. Internet standards however stick around. People are
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still using IRC and e-mail even though these protocols have been around for
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decades. Utilizing proven standards doesn’t mean one can not evolve. GMail has
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revolutionized the way we look at e-mail. Firefox and Chrome have changed the
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way we use the Web. Conversations will change the way we look at instant
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messaging. Being less obstrusive than a telephone call instant messaging has
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always played an importent role in modern society. Conversations will show that
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instant messaging can be fast, relialbe and private. Conversations will not
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force its security and privacey aspects upon the user. For those willing to use encryption
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Conversations will make it as uncomplicated as possible. However Conversations
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is aware that end-to-end encryption by the very principle isn’t trivial. Instead
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of trying the impossible and making encryption easier than comparing a
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fingerprint Conversations will try to educate the willing user and explain the
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necessary steps and the reasons behind them. Those unwilling to learn about
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encryption will still be protected by the design principals of Conversations.
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Conversations will simply not share or generate certain information for example
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by encouraging the use of federated servers. Conversations will always
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utilize the best available standards for encryption and media encoding instead
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of reinventing the wheel. However it isn’t afraid to break with behavior patterns
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that have been proven ineffctive.
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