Tor Releases Messenger Beta For Secure Chat (thestack.com) 16
An anonymous reader writes: The anonymous community Tor Project has released a beta version of its Tor Messenger app – a chat platform which it intends to promote among users concerned with digital privacy and security. Like the onion routing Tor Browser, the app has been designed to protect the location and the routing data of the user, and transferred information via the open source Off-The-Record (OTR) protocol.
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Or you can just use cyph on tor. (Score:1)
https://cyphdbyhiddenbhs.onion
TOR Snail Mail anyone... (Score:1)
Too late (Score:2)
Too late for Ross Ulbricht, I see.
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I see you get paid for spreading FUD. More evidence the feds and the NSA/GCHQ actually cannot get into TOR.
That TOR canary tweated and died (Score:1)
Silk Road was TOR's canary and it was busted, and if that wasn't enough its successor was also busted. A clear "tweet'.
This messenger is across TOR but connects to normal messaging servers to get addresses, Googles, Yahoo etc., so by monitoring those servers for this messenger client, you know whose made a TOR connection. In effect this is a collection list for TOR users.
Pigin and Jitsi would be better alternatives.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity
"The NSA c
Secure chat? (Score:2)
Cool! Shame it's gonna be illegal in the UK soon...
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Yes with older efforts like "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/wor... [theguardian.com]
"codenamed Cheesy Name, was aimed at singling out encryption keys, known as 'certificates', that might be vulnerable to being cracked by GCHQ supercomputers."
Thats the key to gov thinking on any consumer grade secure applications.
If that fails 'responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert
TFA Image is a load of crap (Score:2)