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Tor Is Building an Anonymous Instant Messenger

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the most-private-of-messages dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with news about a new anonymous instant messenger client on the way from Tor. "Forget the $16 billion romance between Facebook and WhatsApp. There's a new messaging tool worth watching. Tor, the team behind the world's leading online anonymity service, is developing a new anonymous instant messenger client, according to documents produced at the Tor 2014 Winter Developers Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland."

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  1. Re:Tor? by ifiwereasculptor · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I want to keep something secret from the US, I'll just use ICQ, since it's owned by russians. Of course, the downside of using ICQ in 2014 is that my messages will stay too confidential for the purposes of communicating.

  2. Re:OTR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thats why I send all my communications in binary as a box of donuts. To confuse people even more the donuts are 1s and the holes are 0s.

  3. Re:OTR by FictionPimp · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I encrypt all my conversations and embed the message in the background noise of cat videos.