New Tor Messenger App Offers Encrypted Communications

TORlogoThe Tor Project released the beta of their new Messenger app.  This messenging client is based on Mozilla’s Instantbird, and works with several popular messaging platforms, including Facebook Chat, Twitter, Google Talk, and Jabber.

The encryption piece is handled using Tor’s OTR Protocol (for Off-The Record), and requires that users exchange a secret key.  This is available in Windows, Linus, and OSX versions from the Tor website.

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Dark Web Becomes Twilight Web

dark-webThe Dark Web is that part of the Internet where cyber-criminals run message boards and sell everything from malware exploit kits, rainbow tables of cracked passwords, and botnets for rent, to child pornography, pharmaceuticals, illegal drugs, and weapons.  Time was it was a hard place to find, many sites available by invitation only and reached via the TOR network.

Recently, international law ...

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Tor Story 2

This is the second of a three-part series of articles about TOR.  On Monday we took a look at the surprising origins of the TOR network.  Today we will be taking a look at how TOR works.

HOW TOR WORKS

To use TOR, a person just needs to go to The TOR Project , and download an install the TOR web browser. Then it makes sense to read the TOR warning document. The rules include:

  • Use the TOR browser
  • Don’t torrent ...
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Tor Story 1

TORlogoTOR or The Onion Router is one of the greatest anonymizer services available on the Internet, and allows anyone to use the Internet without revealing their source IP address, and through that, their location. Yet as recently as last November, when the FBI took down the Silk Road server and arrested its operator , and Interpol followed up with the seizure of 400 Dark Web marketplace sites and the arrest ...

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