I'd like Hangouts to do a lot of things. It looks like they made the right choice in moving away from XMPP compliance in favor of usability. It certainly improved the apps' popularity but took a lot of back steps on security and openness. I'd like to at least see google include hangouts as part of their upcoming [end-to-end](https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/) extension.
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I'd like Hangouts to do a lot of things. It looks like they made the right choice in moving away from XMPP compliance in favor of usability. It certainly improved the apps' popularity but took a lot of back steps on security and openness. I'd like to at least see google include hangouts as part of their upcoming [end-to-end](https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/) extension.