Ricochet may be interesting, and you SHOULD be able to build a no-metadata-leaks IM on Tor, but it wasn’t well-served by that horrible story in Wired, which was all rah-rah cheerleading from the insider, no external voices, full of silly cliches: “High-school drop-out defeats the NSA!!!” ricochet-im/ricochet is kind of quiet…
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Nathan of Guardian < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, at 12:38 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > So the ideal would be if Bleep also provided some kind of p2p proxy for > > the > > direct connections. And of course, it needs to be open source to be > > taken > > seriously. > > They should have learned more from Twister: http://twister.net.co/ since > they have thought about the metadata issue a lot: > > "twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform > leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and > BitTorrent protocols." > > The other news yesterday was about Richocet aka Invsible.IM, which is > basically just TorChat evolved (P2P hidden service chat). Unfortunately, > it has a very fragile binary protocol, and depends on the idea of > massive scaling of Tor Hidden Services, which they were not designed to > do: > > https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet > > Any comment or update from Briar folk about either of these systems? > > _______________________________________________ > Guardian-dev mailing list > > Post: [email protected] > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > > To Unsubscribe > Send email to: [email protected] > Or visit: > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/tbray%40textuality.com > > You are subscribed as: [email protected] > -- - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray)
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