[liberationtech] An interesting anonymous chat project: Invisible.im

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)]

Il 7/10/14, 3:38 PM, Keira Cran ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> Invisible.im (http://invisible.im) is a really interesting project
> leveraging Tor to provide anonymous chat. It takes a fascinating
> approach using Tor hidden services, but is yet to be released to the
> public.

I feel that we don't need another IM, but we need:
- CONSOLIDATION of existing opensource/secure technologies
- INTEROPERABILITY among existing opensource/secure technologies

We need to focus on what's already in the user's hand, make it  ubiquous
and interoperable.

There are other "IM approach" that try to use Tor for anonymous chatting
such as:
- TorChat: https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat
- jTorChat: https://github.com/jtorchat/jtorchat
- Richolet: https://ricochet.im/

Any attempt to improve security is good, but i would strongly
concentrate on consolidating and collaborating with existing projects,
by improving them, rather than reinventing the wheel.

For example i would suggest to leverage existing CryptoCat codebase, to
adapt/improve it to the requirements of "invisible.im" .

Remember that maybe 90% of software job is making the software product
to works properly, not making it secure.

If someone else already have done the 90% job, just focus on the 10%
minor security improvements here and there.

We need to "Capitalize" the existing community efforts, not disperse it.

-- 
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights
http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org

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