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2,156 | 3,130 | |
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c-toxcore
- Tox Core is one of the nicest-to-read C codebases
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uTox – The Lightweight Tox Client
See also this somewhat infamous thread on Tox's cryptographic design[1].
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Tox seems slowly dying (change my mind), what alternatives have you researched?
In case with Tox you have to trust in homebrew crypto that was never properly audited (how about that security issue reported by Donenfeld in 2017, which is being tackled only now, sort of?) -- and outdated and outright abandoned clients which were never above, let's say, "beta quality".
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qTox unmaintained. Is this the end of qTox?
it has the new group chat feature (https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/pull/2269)
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Российские спецслужбы научились следить за пользователями Telegram
"If Tox already does onion routing, why use Tox over Tor?"
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My list of favorite secure messaging apps
What an arbitrary criteria to judge a project by. There have been 5 releases in the past year, including a major feature release.
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I know Privacy Guides is the new version of Privacy Tools, but even if so, do the recommendations (or at least most of them) in the old site still apply today?
Signal isn't falling behind and Tox is an old service that has had issues with messages being spoofable since day 1
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Shadiness in the Privacy Space: Jonah Aragon's (PrivacyGuides) Failed Attempt to Takeover PrivacyTools.io
tox https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
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E2E encrypted voice and chat service similar to Discord/Slack?
You could use a Tox front end like qTox or Toxic. It is a fully encrypted end-to-end communication protocol that allows text, voice, and video chat. The github page for the Tox protocol has some useful caveats about the its security.
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Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging
It links to a bug report discussion where one of the developers states that they don't understand the security properties of tox very well[1].
I find that worrying.
bbs
- Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived Since Nov 2023
- Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived Since 12/2023
- Fastly announces plans to block domain fronting in February 2024
- Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived since November 2, 2023
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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63
People should be aware that privacy tools can make you stand out. Unless methods are used to obfuscate your data.
- Cloudflare R2 has been blocked by the South Korean government
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I Don't Trust Signal
I never trusted Signal due to https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60
- A report on Iran's GFW
- WireGuard Blocked by stupid ISP, How to unblock it?
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Is it possible that my schools network can block my ExpressVPN?
VPNs are totally detectable - its your traffic eg what ur searching up that is hard or impossible to decrypt. to make the VPN TRAFFIC itself undetectable, you have to obfuscate it. Now there could be a lot of reasons as to how your school blocked your vpn. The ports expressvpn use may have been blocked, for example. I personally don't use express vpn but use my own, but protocols like wireguard which MAY (im not sure) be used by express vpn use udp packets and the school could have just completely dropped them completely (Most games use udp packets since its faster), or the ip ranges you have been assigned on expressvpn may have just been blocked from the school wifi. As for why the cheap free vpn may be able to bypass your school wifi, it could be that it avoids the reasons above OR its something different like a proxy, which is what I use to bypass the restrictions at my high school. The fix, or what I do, is I setup my own servers. The price of a vps server at digital ocean is like 4 dollars a month, probably around the same price if not cheaper than expressvpn. Get yourself one, setup your own proxy server and connect to that. You can search around for tutorials, but the one I use is VMESS+TCP, essentially disguising the proxy traffic as a tcp packet so that the school can't distinguish it from regular traffic. Find a tutorial online, probably ask around on here: https://github.com/net4people/bbs If you followed a guide and still can't get it to work, your gna have to find an unblocked port. I would try 443 or 123 first since usually those aren't blocked but for my school 3478 is the one that works.
What are some alternatives?
berty - Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
Xray-core - Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core, with XTLS support. Fully compatible configuration.
aTox - Reasonable Tox client for Android
serverless-dns - The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, and Fly.io
qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
pivpn-docker - Run PiVPN in a Container!
toxic - A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client
Signal-TLS-Proxy
libuvpp - Minimal Change of libUV for P2P Networking
ricochet - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
c-toxcore - The future of online communications.
oxen-mobile-wallet - A Mobile Wallet for Oxen