Almost nine months after its announcement, Tor Messenger is now available in beta for Windows, OS X and Linux. In a context over a carrier but in an already congested area, the team behind the famous connection and navigation services
anonymised aimed to deliver a tool quickly, gestation was therefore a little longer than expected
The idea:. allow anonymity in the same instant messaging exchanges. Which is already partly possible through the encryption of conversations on the protocol XMPP / Jabber for example, but not as complete as the routing service Tor onion – particularly because the encryption does not guarantee the anonymity.
“Tor Messenger is based on services known to the users, who can continue to interact with their contact safely. It is always a client-server model, which means that your metadata can be recorded by the servers. However, the route to the server will be hidden because you are communicating over Tor, “says Sukhbir Sing, developer within the project.
Project, which has yet to be finalized , obliges beta, bugs are likely to be numerous and Sukhbir Sing evokes made probable date.
Tor Messenger will nevertheless find its place in a secure messaging already occupied sector. Latest episode: Bleep BitTorrent, but if there are many called, there was finally chosen few
The question of the business model of messaging applications.
relying on the confidentiality of exchanges gives debatable: from
Many applications launched in this segment have been constraints
recently shut down. The case can be cited of
Heml.is the application, launched by the founder of Peter Piratebay
Sunde, who threw in the towel in May explaining
that “create a mass market around the simple promise of a
Private, secure application and beautiful was not enough. ”
The Secret application, which proposed to exchange messages with
his circle of contacts while retaining a certain anonymity,
also abandoned the project after several cases of harassment
line in its community, its creator explains on his blog
that “Secret no longer corresponds to what he imagined by launching its
business. “
In this difficult context, Tor and company will have to innovate because their brand is not enough …
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