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Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

91 pointsby tvirelliabout 10 years ago

16 comments

patconabout 10 years ago
Hm. I&#x27;m not sure I get it. (from the Google cache)<p>&gt; Q: Can I call any number I want?<p>&gt; A: No. Ghost Call can only call other Ghost Call numbers.<p>&gt; Q: How can we contact you?<p>&gt; A: You can email us at info@ghostcall.io, or Ghost Call us: (490)-628-2381<p>So it&#x27;s a ZRTP SIP provider that uses regular phone number format as the identifier? It strikes me as rather much like OSTN&#x2F;OSTel, but using a phone-number-looking identifier rather than a username... and if that&#x27;s the case, the whole ostn stack is opensource&#x2F;auditable and federated, so I&#x27;m unsure of the improvement here, aside from the branding. Heck, I would prefer if they used the OSTN chef cookbooks and contributed back.<p>EDIT: Nooo! I&#x27;m the downer top commenter! I have become all that I am mildly irritated by. To clarify, I like that this service was created, and commend the interest of the devs, regardless of my outstanding questions :)
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chatmastaabout 10 years ago
If you are going to recommend users connect to you via a proxy or Tor, don&#x27;t recommend tor2web. The whole point of tor2web is that it&#x27;s a non-anonymous way to access Tor. Your traffic goes through tor2web servers, which are not part of the onion routing.<p>Anyway, nice business. If I&#x27;m understanding correctly, you are basically an SIP hosting provider that assumes your clients will use Linphone to connect. Am I correct in this? If so, it&#x27;s an interesting model, but I think you need to put more effort into clarifying that you are a host, not a security provider. Also, you might want to apply some of that hosting expertise to your website....
xbryanxabout 10 years ago
&quot;Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.&quot;<p>I used to use this quote all the time too...until I realized it originally meant something entirely different.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;how-the-world-butchered-benjamin-franklins-quote-on-liberty-vs-security&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;14&#x2F;how-the-world-butchered-ben...</a>
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drussellabout 10 years ago
Anonymity is quite the growing market segment. And the NSA is as unpopular as ever.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating how the public responds to the government.
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crypt1dabout 10 years ago
Looks cool but the &#x27;About&#x27; part might be &#x27;too much&#x27; for the average Joe. I&#x27;d put it in layman terms if I were you, maybe make a simple diagram...etc
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nczaabout 10 years ago
Site seems dead.<p>Is it free software? What differentiates it from Signal&#x2F;TS?
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0x006Aabout 10 years ago
how does it compare to OSTN&#x2F;OSTel (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ostel.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ostel.co&#x2F;</a>)
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john8675309about 10 years ago
Hey everyone, the site is having a hard time responding (obviously), I am working to get it back going, Thanks for hanging in there!
kseistrupabout 10 years ago
So by registrating I get (1) a number, (2) a password, and (3) a country code. What do I enter as username etc. in Linphone?
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ericfontaineabout 10 years ago
Will this be available on f-droid? Many people don&#x27;t like having google play on their phone, especially those concerned with privacy and open-source. I know the user can always compile this themselves.
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doomroboabout 10 years ago
Could anybody explain what ZRTP hash is and why it&#x27;s insecure?
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datakerabout 10 years ago
&gt; A:During the beta period logs are kept for 24 hours, once beta is complete there will be no call log records.<p>Is there a particular reason to do so during their beta?
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MrSheen1812about 10 years ago
Have gone through the setup for Android, manage to make calls but they&#x27;re not secured, TLS and ZRTP enabled, STUN server correct.....
howtoplayhumanabout 10 years ago
Hmmmm?<p>1st: Ghost Call recommends ZRTP media encryption<p>2nd: ZRTP hash allows a MITM (Man In The Middle) and creates a risk of decryption.<p>Why recommend it then? Am I missing something?
tvirelliabout 10 years ago
We updated the site with a video showing video chat!
datakerabout 10 years ago
Seems like a great project, but I&#x27;d argue governments would heavily try to undermine it.