Tor is set to launch public beta for new anonymous instant messaging service next month

[Justin Kahn]

The Tor Project is well known for its anonymous browsing software among other things, and now the group has a new messaging service in development. According to news from the Tor 2014 Winter Developers conference in Iceland, the service is an anonymous instant messenger that works with the open source InstantBird client.

Tor Instant Messaging Bundle (TIMB), as the service is known, has already gone into experimental release and is set to launch a public beta at the end of March. Reports say the team hopes to have a more finalized build of TIMB bundled with Tor Launcher in the coming months.

While things like TorChat already boast a considerably large userbase, some have suggested an anonymous chat service fully integrated into the Tor Launcher could bolster interest significantly. However, the Tor team has put the focus on its security measures for TIMB front and center, having hired outside experts to ensure that “people in countries where communication for the purpose of activism is met with intimidation, violence, and prosecution will be able to avoid the scrutiny of criminal cartels, corrupt officials, and authoritarian governments.”

A world once reserved only for those comfortable with a command line (or the patients/skill to use other encryption software), has slowly become more accessible because of the now 30 developers or so behind the Tor Project. Spread across the globe, the non-profit team takes in about $2 million in donations a year for its efforts, according to reports. TIMB is part of the group's continued goal to make its secure products easy to use for anyone with a computer.

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[Fbarnett]

Tor is set to launch public beta for new anonymous instant messaging service next month. The need to be anonymous ? So you make phony messages?

 

[Guest]

TOR making the distribution and discussion of Pedo porn safer for all creepy guys everywhere.

 

[stansfield]

Anything that prevents the NSA and GCHQ trying to access every little thing about our lives under the guise of preventing terrorism is to be welcomed. Control is the aim, not protection!!

 

[Camikazi]

Anything that prevents the NSA and GCHQ trying to access every little thing about our lives under the guise of preventing terrorism is to be welcomed. Control is the aim, not protection!!

The US Navy helped develop Tor, don't assume just cause the NSA has said that Tor is very anonymous and secure that it can't find a way in.

 

[Underdog]

Anything that prevents the NSA and GCHQ trying to access every little thing about our lives under the guise of preventing terrorism is to be welcomed. Control is the aim, not protection!!

The US Navy helped develop Tor, don't assume just cause the NSA has said that Tor is very anonymous and secure that it can't find a way in.

It is probable that the new supercomputer that the NSA is assembling will be able to crack ANY clever encryption or anonymising system we can come up with. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to up our game and get back at least SOME of our freedom of speech, privacy, etc. Let's not make it easy for Big Brother to take over the world.

 

[Camikazi]

Anything that prevents the NSA and GCHQ trying to access every little thing about our lives under the guise of preventing terrorism is to be welcomed. Control is the aim, not protection!!

The US Navy helped develop Tor, don't assume just cause the NSA has said that Tor is very anonymous and secure that it can't find a way in.

It is probable that the new supercomputer that the NSA is assembling will be able to crack ANY clever encryption or anonymising system we can come up with. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to up our game and get back at least SOME of our freedom of speech, privacy, etc. Let's not make it easy for Big Brother to take over the world.

I didn't say we should, I was just letting him know that something that was created by one of the branches of the US military might not exactly be the Fort Knox of anonymity they think it might be.

 

[stansfield]

Anything that prevents the NSA and GCHQ trying to access every little thing about our lives under the guise of preventing terrorism is to be welcomed. Control is the aim, not protection!!

The US Navy helped develop Tor, don't assume just cause the NSA has said that Tor is very anonymous and secure that it can't find a way in.

It is probable that the new supercomputer that the NSA is assembling will be able to crack ANY clever encryption or anonymising system we can come up with. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to up our game and get back at least SOME of our freedom of speech, privacy, etc. Let's not make it easy for Big Brother to take over the world.

I didn't say we should, I was just letting him know that something that was created by one of the branches of the US military might not exactly be the Fort Knox of anonymity they think it might be.

I guess you're right, since these people use taxpayers(our) money to develop these encryption cracking systems, they don't have to worry about the expense but at least we can give them a run for their money!!!

 

[psycros]

Anything that prevents the NSA and GCHQ trying to access every little thing about our lives under the guise of preventing terrorism is to be welcomed. Control is the aim, not protection!!

The US Navy helped develop Tor, don't assume just cause the NSA has said that Tor is very anonymous and secure that it can't find a way in.

It is probable that the new supercomputer that the NSA is assembling will be able to crack ANY clever encryption or anonymising system we can come up with. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to up our game and get back at least SOME of our freedom of speech, privacy, etc. Let's not make it easy for Big Brother to take over the world.

I didn't say we should, I was just letting him know that something that was created by one of the branches of the US military might not exactly be the Fort Knox of anonymity they think it might be.

I guess you're right, since these people use taxpayers(our) money to develop these encryption cracking systems, they don't have to worry about the expense but at least we can give them a run for their money!!!

Don't you mean "a run for OUR money"?

Hurray to TOR, hurray to anything that fights the NWO. Giving up all your freedom for a little security is NEVER a good deal. Remember, folks, we have a guy in the White House who has said to us without ANY ambiguity, "I will ignore the Constitution in order to control your lives; I WILL violate your civil and human rights to maintain power and support my globalist masters.". Welcome to Amerika, comrade.