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Hacktivismo launches ScatterChat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anti-electronic-shoulder-surfing dept.

un1xl0ser writes to tell us Hacktivismo has released a new chat program known as ScatterChat. It is a friendly fork of GAIM that "provides end-to-end encryption, integrated onion-routing with Tor, secure file transfers, and easy-to-read documentation." This announcement was made at HOPE, where CDs were distributed. A torrent and several screenshots are also available."

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  1. Not as plugin(s)? by AnyoneEB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Gaim is quite modular and allows plugins to do a lot. The base Gaim with no plugins supports zero IM protocols and does not even show a system tray icon. (It comes with those plugins.) Why could this not have been implemented as a plugin? I already have twoend-to-end encryption plugins installed (gaim-encryption and gaim-otr). I would not expect secure file transfers to be difficult to do as a plugin. Really, I am just not sure about TOR, but that should be submitted as a patch to the offical Gaim source tree (or, at least a patch for a way for plugins to add proxy options).

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  2. I've got the CD by murph · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But am I willing to put a CD from cDc in my machine? I think not.

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  3. I made something like this about a year ago... by Afecks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://freehaven.net/~aphex/torch/torch.png

    It is more like jabber. It uses .onion addresses to identify buddies. It is very secure.