Anonymous Facebook chat, Twitter, or Google Talk network through Tor became closer to users
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Given the rigid censorship, monitoring activities on the Internet and regular account hijacking, there is nothing unusual in people trying to make the most anonymous means of communication. If the possibility of relatively anonymous Telegram enough and you want to protect correspondence in other popular instant messengers on Help comes from an alternative "darkveba» - Tor Messenger, the beta version is already available for download for all current desktop platforms.
Novelty is based on the messenger Instantbird, Mozilla-developed community. Accordingly, Tor Messenger works with many chat clients: Google Talk, Facebook, Twitter and IRC.
In addition, the developers promise Tor Messenger automatically hide metadata chat and provide communication using OTR encryption protocol. Using the latter involves four principles of anonymity and security of.
- Encryption. No one can read your instant messages.
- Authentication. Certificate of authenticity of the interlocutor, which gives assurance that you are communicating with the person to whom you actually wrote.
- Subtlety. No messages have a digital signature that can be traced from the outside. Thus, the third party will not be able to prove that messages written by any other destination.
- Complete anonymity of communication. If you lose access to your private keys, no previous conversation is not available would be attackers, and you will not be compromised.
With Tor Messenger you continue to communicate in ways that are familiar to you. They are all built on a client-server model, which provides access to the metadata servers of your correspondence. However, your way to the server will be hidden, so how you communicate through the network Tor.
Beta messenger can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux. No matter how you feel about the Tor, the new messenger - is the ability to communicate anonymously on familiar platforms and not to have additional accounts in third-party messengers.