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Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched

posted by takyon on Friday July 17 2015, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the instant-paranoia dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote in with a link to a comprehensive secure instant messaging communication guide at The Intercept. It covers Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Android, primarily using the Jabber/XMPP chat protocol and Tor Browser for configuring a Jabber account over the Web without accidentally leaking your identity.

When you pick up the phone and call someone, or send a text message, or write an email, or send a Facebook message, or chat using Google Hangouts, other people find out what you're saying, who you're talking to, and where you're located. Such private data might only be available to the service provider brokering your conversation, but it might also be visible to the telecom companies carrying your Internet packets, to spy and law enforcement agencies, and even to some nearby teenagers monitoring your Wi-Fi network with Wireshark.

But if you take careful steps to protect yourself, it's possible to communicate online in a way that's private, secret and anonymous. Today I'm going to explain in precise terms how to do that. I'll take techniques NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used when contacting me two and a half years ago and boil them down to the essentials. In a nutshell, I'll show you how to create anonymous real-time chat accounts and how to chat over those accounts using an encryption protocol called Off-the-Record Messaging, or OTR.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @11:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @11:25PM (#210651)

    Mra s are male feminists.

    No argument there. Also, you have no interest in support from like-minded groups. Got it.

    Men used to marry young girls.

    Also true; however, you offer no argument for why this is optimal compared to our current tradition. Why the rabid nostalgia for a tradition that most of the world has abandoned?

    Hopefully the south will rise again . . .

    What does this even mean? People have been saying it forever; I can't tell what benefits or prior state they're hoping will be restored, nor that the people saying it are doing anything to help make it happen.

    . . . and reinstate the practice as they were the last to ban it.

    Again, to what benefit? Because you want it? Because it's better for the young girls? Because it's better for society in general?

    No victory is forever.

    True, but some defeats are.

    Women and their supporters will not reign for all of time over all the earth.

    True again, assuming that they reign right now.

    Honestly, your posts seem calculated to cause maximum offense, with no effort to explain or convince in any way. Your posting history could be simulated with a short shell script for all the variety it presents. What benefit do you derive from this, and what effect do you anticipate it having on your audience? If you intend to be persuasive, you may want to try a different approach.