TOR Released Beta Messenger A Cross-Platform Chat Program Based On Instantbird

TOR Released Beta Messenger A Cross-platform Chat Program Based On Instantbird.

Tor Messenger is a cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. 

It supports a wide variety of transport networks, including Jabber (XMPP), IRC, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, Twitter, Yahoo, and others; enables Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging automatically; and has an easy-to-use graphical user interface localized into multiple languages.

InstantBird:

A number of messaging clients: Pidgin, Adam Langley's xmpp-client, and Instantbird. Instantbird was the pragmatic choice -- its transport protocols are written in a memory-safe language (JavaScript); it has a graphical user interface and already supports many natural languages; and it's a XUL application, which means we can leverage both the code (Tor Launcher) and in-house expertise that the Tor Project has developed working on Tor Browser with Firefox. It also has an active and vibrant software developer community that has been very responsive and understanding of our needs. The main feature it lacked was OTR support, which we have implemented and hope to upstream to the main Instantbird repository for the benefit of all Instantbird (and Thunderbird) users.

Instructions

• On Linux, extract the bundle(s) and then run: ./start-tor-messenger.desktop
• On OS X, copy the Tor Messenger application from the disk image to your local disk before running it.
• On all platforms, Tor Messenger sets the profile folder for Firefox/Instantbird to the installation directory.
• Note that as a policy, unencrypted one-to-one conversations are not allowed and your messages will not be transmitted if the person you are talking with does not have an OTR-enabled client. You can disable this option in the preferences to allow unencrypted communication but doing so is not recommended.

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