[Noisebridge-discuss] streaming video, teleconferencing and more

[Christie Dudley]

Here's something more recent than 2006:
http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/skype_security_problems_multiply_1.html

--
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
obliteration.
- Bene Gesserit Litany


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:

> You can get it set up as multi-point?  Everyone I know who has tried has
> given up.  If there's something I'm missing, I'd be interested to hear it.
>
> Security issues were reported at Black Hat Europe in 2006:
> http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf
> I know there are other discussions as well.
>
> Christie
>
> --
> Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
> obliteration.
> - Bene Gesserit Litany
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well ideally, to me, what I'd want is some sort of multiplexible video
>> conferencing thing, which I think skype has, but there may be some other
>> apps out there as well (thinking about client side ease of us as well as
>> ours) -- I hate closed protocols too, but what are some of the security
>> issues with skype?
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I am opposed to using Skype for a number of reasons, not the least of
>>> which includes it being a closed protocol.  I just can't get behind
>>> something that has had so many security issues, whether it effects us or
>>> not.
>>>
>>> I will agree that Skype is easy to set up, but it's only available as a
>>> point-to-point connection, which prevents it from serving the purpose we're
>>> looking to fulfill here.  If a single person can't participate, it's great.
>>> If even 2 can't, it fails.  Same goes for the user-panned webcam.
>>>
>>> For more participatory events, it would be nice to have a fish-eye.  I
>>> think a 360 one would be too much and probably make the viewer nauseous.
>>> Besides, people who don't want to be seen online should have somewhere to
>>> participate too.
>>>
>>> Christie
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
>>> obliteration.
>>> - Bene Gesserit Litany
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:29:51PM -0700, Praveen Sinha wrote:
>>>> > So my next questions to you all -- noisebridge is starting to produce
>>>> some
>>>> > really cool sounding sessions and I can only make a small percentage
>>>> of
>>>> > stuff I'd like to be involved in.  I don't have a lot of video
>>>> experience,
>>>> > but:
>>>> >
>>>> > 1) Anyone have any suggestions/designs for some sort of rig we could
>>>> use to
>>>> > capture video/audio of events, for the purpose of streaming online?
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I actually have the dorkbot camera guy's contact info for just this
>>>> question.  I'll drop him an email this evening asking for
>>>> recommendations (I don't believe he's on the list).
>>>>
>>>> > 2) I think it would be amazing to be able to videoconference with
>>>> other
>>>> > hackerspaces (or whomever) on the wall...  With the projector, and
>>>> skype,
>>>> > this could be really straightforward... But are there better
>>>> approaches?  My
>>>> > employer, for example, has a room called "Virtual Isabel", where the
>>>> room is
>>>> > replicated in second life, and people in the physical room talk with
>>>> the
>>>> > avatars in the virtual room, and the virtual room sees a live stream
>>>> of the
>>>> > physical room...
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I like the idea of having a better telepresence setup, though not
>>>> anything nearly as advanced as what you've got at work.  Also, I don't
>>>> currently have, and would rather not create, a SL account (call me
>>>> closed-minded and old-fashioned if you must, but, well, it's apt).
>>>>
>>>> (IIRC, you and I had chatted about this for ML talks back at the
>>>> beginning of those, as far back as December.  I'd love to see us push
>>>> through it now, but haven't wanted to step into it myself just yet.)
>>>> --
>>>> Josh Myer   650.248.3796
>>>>  josh at joshisanerd.com
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>>>
>>>
>>
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