[tor-talk] OTR and logging

[Michael McConville]

grarpamp wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:24 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Fuck! Disappointed to learn that Tor Messenger doesn't include
> > logging of chats. I thought we'd learned…"
> 
> It's open source, a few lines of code will solve that. Feeling sorry
> for the people who will choose to use it believing it's not loggable
> and thus end up being compromised. Tor should not allow that belief.

Tor Messenger *definitely* shouldn't log by default. This defeats much
of the purpose of private chat, and many people back up unencrypted to
the cloud. I think the OTR people specifically suggest that you don't
log.