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Speek
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Now for Android: Speek! - A Decentralized and Anonymous Messenger Utilizing Tor hidden services (also supports p2p anonymous file sharing)
Details here
- Best WhatsApp Alternatives for Privacy | Which one is your favorite?
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Bringing Anonymous Decentralized Messenger to PinePhone
Our Github: https://github.com/Speek-App/Speek/
Sadly I fail to build Speek on aarch64. I followed the instructions on https://github.com/Speek-App/Speek/blob/main/BUILDING.md, but would not come up with a working binary. To be precise, here's my experimental PKGBUILD:
- Speek! - A decentralized and anonymous messenger based on Tor hidden services (allows anonymous p2p file sharing) Mac, Windows and Linux
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Ricochet reborn: A user friendly TorChat for everybody available for GNU/Linux and in the Mac Store and Windows Store.
github: https://github.com/Speek-App/Speek web: https://speek.network/ AppImageHub: https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1739998 MacStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/speek/id1609665326 WinStore: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/speek/9plhbg7k1wzn?cid=msft_web_chart&activetab=pivot:overviewtab
ricochet-refresh
- Spread Tails OS and Tor to as many people as possible - screw the UK and USA intelligence services!
- Things I do as anarchist - do the same create another 100 me's
- Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it
- I2PChat vs Ricochet Refresh
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Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
Briar is one of the most important secure messaging projects currently. Not only does it remove the need to trust the vendor about content (like with all E2EE messaging apps), you also get to keep the metadata about communication to yourself as data transits from one Tor Onion Service to another.
The downside is of course, you need to keep the endpoint powered on when you want to be reachable so it will increase the battery drain on your phone.
Note: There's also a desktop client if that's easier to keep online https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/
One extremely important thing Briar is doing, is it's using the P2P as means to host alternative social interaction formats, like forums and blogs. Similar to Signal/WhatsApp stories (which is somewhat similar to microblogs/FB wall), it's a way to indirectly share information. You could pretty much emulate any social media platform on top of E2EE protocol with ~zero infrastructure cost and without having to worry about data mining. I'd argue what Briar's innovating on here is one of the most important aspects in what's left for secure messaging.
Finally a small caveat: Briar will share your Bluetooth MAC address with all peers so it can automatically use that when you're in close proximity with your peer. Thus sharing your Briar ID publicly is not a good idea for two reasons:
1) major global adversaries may have access to that information (e.g. if Google aggregates it) which can deanonymize your account. This also allows slightly technical person to confirm identity of briar account if they suspect it's you (a bit wonky threat model but still).
2) it ties everything you do across your accounts on same device together, so there's strong linkability even if you rotate the identity key by reinstalling the app.
Briar is pretty clear about this in it's FAQ, but it's still not very well known although it definitely should be.
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That being said, if you want similar Onion Service based communication with no such linkability, there's https://cwtch.im/ which is a fantastic project.
There's also https://www.ricochetrefresh.net/
Both are spiritual successors to John Brooks' `Ricochet` application.
You can also chat and share files (among other things) with https://onionshare.org/
(And finally, you can get remote exfiltration security for keys/plaintexts with TFC https://github.com/maqp/tfc (my personal work), at the cost of losing some features like message forwarding etc that the architecture prevents you from doing.)
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Where is there a tutorial for Ricochet Relay?
That's the old ricochet. OP is talking about refresh
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Tails OTR vs I2PChat which is better?
Ricochet Refresh
- Ricochet reborn: A user friendly TorChat for everybody available for GNU/Linux and in the Mac Store and Windows Store.
What are some alternatives?
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
ricochet - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
Tox - The future of online communications.
ricochet-refresh - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets
conceal-desktop - Conceal Desktop (GUI)
feather - A free and open-source Monero desktop wallet.
quiet - A private, p2p alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor & IPFS
turbo-beep - Peer to peer file sharing and messaging between different networks including server acting as a mediator (TCP hole punching).
i2pchat - Secure, anonymous peer-to-peer chat
recovery-gpt - RecoveryGPT - Revive your ChatGPT conversations with elegance and full privacy!