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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. Joy of joys! by msauve · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now I'll be able to communicate with some random, anonymous Internet person.

    Slashdot is doomed.

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  2. Re:OTR by stoborrobots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That hides the content of your communication, but it still shows that you're communicating, and with whom. So the "metadata" that the NSA and/or FB are interested in is still available...

    Ostensibly using TOR hides the fact that you're the one communicating, and who you're communicating with... (Whether that's still true in practice is another question...)

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