Questions for Obi
Kage:
With the latest firmware to make Google Voice compatible with the new OAuth 2.0 protocol the ability to configure GV locally is lost. In addition, when making calls through GV does the authentication go through Obitalk first? This opens up the possibility that you could potentially monitor usage or even the numbers we call.
If your site or network goes down, something that has happened several times in the past few years would we lose GV? What if you suddenly go out of business or sell, what happens to the data? Do you promise not to sell our data to third parties? What if you decide someone is using GV too much, are you able to cut that party off or limit access?
Instead of tinfoil accusations I think these are real issues because by the way it appears, and if I'm wrong hopefully someone will correct me, Obi will be a middleman to all GV calls.
The answer is to allow again local configuring and authentication to avoid privacy complaints and other concerns noted above. And from my end I plan to have a backup VOIP, most likely Localphone or VoIP.ms.
Mango:
My unofficial guess at the answer to your question:
I suspect that calls would not be routed via OBiTALK. There would be no benefit to doing this, and it would add more points of failure, add latency, and increase cost. If you wish, you could confirm my guess with Wireshark, or inspect connections tracked by your router (if your router allows you to do this).
If you have OBiTALK Service enabled, Obihai could in theory monitor the numbers you call, whether or not you use Google Voice. I'm not aware of any significant historical privacy issues, however, if you like to be particularly cautious you can disable OBiTALK Service.
It seems that OBiTALK would need to be operable in order to configure Google Voice on a device. With the new authentication method, your Google credentials are no longer stored in OBiTALK (they were before).
Kage:
This is what I've been trying to find an answer to, there are many sites that will let you sign in to Google for example using Google's credentials so that site has no record of your username or password but you're doing it through their site just the same and there's a record of the transaction. So if the website goes down the ability to do that is lost.
And that's the question: when we make a call is it going directly to Google or to Obitalk first where you then get signed into Google Chat? At the very least if it's the latter then we run the risk of losing GV if obitalk goes down, even if they're not particularly monitoring usage. Although it would be obvious to them that a call was being made and they could keep a record of it if they so chose to.
Shale:
Quote from: Kage on September 16, 2014, 06:16:16 pm
And that's the question: when we make a call is it going directly to Google or to Obitalk first where you then get signed into Google Chat?
I am pretty sure that your OBi box goes right to Google. OBiTalk is usually involved in the setup. It is not involved in a call via Google.
giqcass:
One way to test this would be to temporarily block the OBI servers after authentication. A lot of routers support this. Then make a call. Don't forget to remove the block afterward.
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