![]() Ricochet is designed with UX in mind, so it's easily usable even by people who don't understand how Tor works. And because of its decentralized nature, it's impossible for attackers to censor it by taking down a single server. By utilizing onion services, the protocol achieves strong anonymity for its users. In the Ricochet protocol, each user is a Tor onion service. It's got a slick UI and works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Ricochet is an anonymous instant messaging tool that hides metadata by using Tor. All of them are free and open source, so feel free to experiment! Ricochet In this blog post, we showcase a few open-source text messaging tools that provide location privacy and additional security to their users by using Tor as a default. It also makes you searchable and targettable by people who happen to know your phone number. Also, all major chat systems require a social media account or a phone number, which is simply impossible for some people, and it also makes it hard to create anonymous or burner accounts for everyone. The bad news is that there has still been absolutely no progress in protecting the metadata and location information of users by these mainstream platforms.Ĭase in point, since most instant messaging systems are not anonymous, they get to learn the full location history of their users through the users' IP address history. The good news here is that in the past couple of years, there has been great progress in protecting users' data by employing end-to-end encryption using the Signal protocol. Unfortunately, all these major mainstream messaging systems belong to huge companies whose money comes from advertising and selling the data and metadata of their users. To understand how important these instant messaging systems are, just check the user growth of systems like WeChat, WhatsApp, etc. The Internet was made for humans to communicate with each other! Even though Internet calls over video and audio are totally possible nowadays, people still enjoy sending texts to each other due to their asynchronous, permanent and casual nature. ![]() And please support the Tor Project! We're at the heart of Internet freedom. Check out our blog each day to learn about our fellow travelers. ![]() During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on Tor, build on Tor, or are accomplishing their missions better because Tor exists.
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