Tox Reviews

Tinfoil Chat Reviews

Tox mentions (29)

• Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users

  I'm a big fan of Matrix, and run a small homeserver for my family in friends. But if you really want to explore the frontiers peer to peer seems really intriguing because you don't need any server. https://tox.chat/ just to name one. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS

  How does it compare to the more mature Tox[0]? 0. https://tox.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Jitsi.org has started requiring authentication

  You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff. https://tox.chat/ https://jami.net/ I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• I'm designing a spy game and need an Anonymous Chat App that's easy to use.

  Still, Tox still around and kicking 😎. Source: about 1 year ago

• Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

  Jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was. Source: over 1 year ago

Tinfoil Chat mentions (3)

• Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scanning before encryption

  >No e2ee app has compromised device part of their threat model. Oh really, here's one I made earlier https://github.com/maqp/tfc :-) >The whole OS can. So how are you backdooring a bash script that comments out lines of code from Linux source before compiling it? You lying to policy makers with "it can be done" mindset sound like a stupid con that burns a lot of money and... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Most secure and private (trace resistant) messaging app in market?

  But as I said, it is way easier to install Pegasus on your phone or to grab / steal the unlocked phone from your hand, than break any of these. If you want absolute privacy, you should think about your physical security, and the trustworthiness of your devices before choosing the right chat app. Check the Tinfoil Chat for more information. Source: 11 months ago

• Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims

  There is software that lives up to these claims, it's Tinfoil Chat. The article is correct about the necessary trade-offs: due to peer to peer transport (onion hidden service 2 onion hidden service) both ends of the conversation have to be online -- it at least spools the message waiting for the recipient to appear. For hole punching and signaling that has to be done by third party, well, the third party is TOR... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago