Idea for Adium iPhone

[Paul Bailey]

On 17 Oct 2009, at 7:31 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2009, at 08:48, Ofri wrote:
>> Indeed, every machine that would like to push a notification must  
>> have a push certificate generated by Apple. As if that's not  
>> enough, this certificate is assigned per app ID, which must be  
>> unique. In practice every user would need to sign up as an iPhone  
>> dev($99), register an app ID, generate a push certificate, and  
>> finally modify his local Adium installation to use that.
>
> So, run a push notification service on behalf of the user-run proxy,  
> but have it do just notifications, not all the real IM fiddly bits.   
> We might want some cryptographic protection to keep it from being  
> used to harass or spam people, and for the more  
> paranoid^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcautious users like me, to not expose the  
> message content to random people running proxy servers whom we don't  
> know or have any special reason to trust with our oh-so-private chat  
> sessions.
>
> There are a lot of options, from just notifying the phone app that  
> "something happened" and it should contact its proxy, to actually  
> conveying some or all of the real data between the user-run IM proxy  
> and the phone.
>
> From browsing the app store, it looks like there are any number of  
> other IM apps that work by routing everything through a provided  
> service, generally with no discussion of password or data protection  
> issues.  So I tend not to trust them very much.  A proxy under my  
> control would make me feel a lot better....
>
> Ken
>

One could jerry-rig something to do this now, using Growl and Prowl,  
if you were prepared to leave a machine on at home to generate the  
Growl notifications.

Paul