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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: wannabud on March 07, 2012, 12:44 pm

Title: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: wannabud on March 07, 2012, 12:44 pm
Hi everybody.

I'm needing a anonymous instant messenger to talk with some friends and everybody knows things like skype, facebook chat, ICQ, msn, aim etc. are definitely not safe. A chat room like IRC or TorChat is not exactly what we looking for, since we wanna just private conversations.

What do you recommend?

Thanks everybody.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: Tagore on March 07, 2012, 12:59 pm
Try Jabber with the appropriate client- Usually Pidgin if you are on Win/Linux OS... or Adium for Mac.

Jabber ID is essentially anonymous since you don't need any acct details to sign up, and Pidgin and Adium allow for encrypted chats.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: wannabud on March 07, 2012, 01:16 pm
Reading about.

Can you use jabber through Tor like SILC?

How works a encrypted chat? Do you need to encrypt & decrypt each message?
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: Tagore on March 07, 2012, 01:59 pm
Can you use jabber through Tor like SILC?
Yes.

How works a encrypted chat? Do you need to encrypt & decrypt each message?
No. Encryption/decryption is done automatically.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: kmfkewm on March 07, 2012, 03:55 pm
Get Pidgin instant message client and the pidgin otr plugin for encryption. It doesn't really matter much which instant message service you use as long as everything is encrypted and routed through Tor. It is possible for OTR to be MITMed pretty easily unless you use the provided tools to detect / avoid this. Most people don't but they really should.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: oldhead on March 07, 2012, 04:03 pm
i thought sr was a new and safe business vehicle. i have found it to be no safer than voy or dzf. i have been robbed twice in two weeks by the btc vendor/exchangers. sr assumes no accountability when really they should requirejbtc vendors to keep enough in escrow until the money is safely exchanged. they offer no such protection and the scammers are just as rampant as a police duckblind like voy or dzf.  to be known tradingpost and randomguy1990 were my theives and highly rated by sr who assume no culpability. it mars good men like btcbuddy and btcpal who are trustworthy.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: OuterLimits on March 07, 2012, 05:47 pm
Use pidgin with otr and configure it to connect through TOR to whatever IM service that you are using.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: i3lazd on March 07, 2012, 06:00 pm
I use Privnote
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: wannabud on March 08, 2012, 12:13 am
What is the difference between jabber and SILC? Wich one do you recommend?

I'm really skeptic about the security with regular messengers or IRC, even with ssl encryption.
Title: Re: Anonymous (and safe) instant messenger
Post by: inscape on March 08, 2012, 02:37 am
i thought sr was a new and safe business vehicle. i have found it to be no safer than voy or dzf. i have been robbed twice in two weeks by the btc vendor/exchangers. sr assumes no accountability when really they should requirejbtc vendors to keep enough in escrow until the money is safely exchanged. they offer no such protection and the scammers are just as rampant as a police duckblind like voy or dzf.  to be known tradingpost and randomguy1990 were my theives and highly rated by sr who assume no culpability. it mars good men like btcbuddy and btcpal who are trustworthy.

you should make a separate thread about this on the "Silk Road Disscussion" forum...