- #Bv4 torchat may not be safe mac os x#
- #Bv4 torchat may not be safe portable#
- #Bv4 torchat may not be safe code#
- #Bv4 torchat may not be safe free#
- #Bv4 torchat may not be safe windows#
#Bv4 torchat may not be safe code#
The threats you mention don't seem too scale-dependent, in the sense that I don't see why having more users increases the likelihood that something doesn't work as advertised ("the code you see is not the code that's running"), or that an increase in user base necessarily induces an increase in the frequency of snooping by the f3ds sufficient to ensure that the probability of any given message being intercepted increases.įor example, I think that if everyone encrypted their email (properly), the world would be an unambiguously better place, privacywise, even if some people were sometimes not careful about whether such-and-such a public key really belongs to the person they want to talk to, etc. By "mainstream", I just mean "with more users". Which often lies in direct opposition to security. Stuxnet, Flame and AT&T Room 641a are for the fedz. *fedz: perhaps we could use this word for when the powers that be engage in black hatery.
People were complaining about features that made dropbox more compelling to the average user (easy web access, file recovery in case of lost password, etc) The whole kerfluffle about Dropbox was the same problem. I will have to admit, I recently downloaded the new version of torbrowser and was impressed at how little configuration was needed to make it work, and how good the defaults were, at least on the mac. Skimping on the above is asking to get your shit hacked, for the lulz, or for the fedz*. But that means a not trivial knowledge of servers, operating systems, securing operating systems, hosting services, web servers, and the like. Now, this all changes if you host the stuff yourself. You also have to hope the government doesn't pull an intercept request under a secret warrant. Although the source code is open source, you can't determine whether or not the source on git or cvs matches the actual running code. You do have to trust the people behind it. Cryptocat is easy to use, without the need to setup servers. The solution, of course, is to make all of this stuff completely mainstream. The solution, of course, is to make all of this stuff completely mainstream.) onions attract some seriously fascinating-as-subjects-of-anthropological-study-not-as-friends folk. Anyway, yes, loneliness is a real danger on TorChat, and, moreover, forums in the. The Zuckerbergian model of Total Privacy Abandonment therefore seems really bizarre to me, but I think finding it bizarre is becoming a minority view. is just an extension of what I was told by the primary school teachers who first showed me the internet in like 1995 - don't give out your personal information. Maybe it's because message privacy is less weird to people than anonymity? To me, using things like Tor, being careful with personally identifiable information, etc. (I've managed to get my partner, close friends, and immediate family using GnuPG, at least to email me, but interestingly TorChat has been a harder sell. Hi, everyone, I'm pxcqeszoerodu37m and I have a problem with paranoia. posted by jeffburdges (19 comments total) Also, check out The Whelk's octopus via projects. I'm kjjhioajgwck2cig though if you feel lonely. You may test TorChat by simply sending yourself a message since messages to yourself are routed through the Tor network.
#Bv4 torchat may not be safe mac os x#
Also, I found the native Mac OS X client initially corrupted Vidalia's configuration, but everybody plays nicely after several reinstalls of the Tor Browser Bundle.
#Bv4 torchat may not be safe windows#
All clients provide log windows that tell you how the tor daemon's bootstrapping fares, btw. If however your ISP or country blocks Tor, then you'll need to configure Tor bridge relays manually.
#Bv4 torchat may not be safe portable#
jTorChat is a portable stand alone client written in Java.Īll these clients run their own tor daemon separate from the one started by the Vidalia program in the Tor Browser Bundle, meaning users need not tweak tor configuration files. Julien-Pierre Avérous has native Mac OS X version which implements the protocol in C++ ( source).
#Bv4 torchat may not be safe free#
prof7bit's reference client is now a libpurple based Pidgin plugin written in Free Pascal, but the older Python client still works. There are several different clients that implement the TorChat protocol : onion address for a hidden service the client creates when first started.