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3,680 | 3,144 | |
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0.0 | 2.8 | |
over 2 years ago | 9 months ago | |
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ricochet
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
This looks like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
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Where is there a tutorial for Ricochet Relay?
Ricochet seems dead. It's been five years since its last commit to their git repo, and their website's certificate expired last year. This is probably why you can't find much information.
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The Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
I think something like Ricochet (if it were still actively maintained) could be a good solution.
https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
Every user is their own Tor onion service, so you get E2E encryption and no centralized servers. The whole thing hinges on the security of Tor itself which is probably a safe enough bet.
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Ricochet reborn: A user friendly TorChat for everybody available for GNU/Linux and in the Mac Store and Windows Store.
With that being said, if I had just one piece of advice - try to avoid ostentatious phrases like Speek is by far the most secure way to converse or 100% anonymous. Tor itself is not 100% anonymous, so that should immediately make anyone cautious. One of the things that I admired about the original Ricochet was that the developers never made brazen claims about their software. In fact, quite the opposite.
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Check out https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/prot.... It is metadata-free. It does not require a centralized server. It uses Tor.
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Documents Shows Just How Much The FBI Can Obtain From Encrypted Communication Services
[1] https://cwtch.im/ [2] https://ricochet.im/
- Darknet chat
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Why don't we have a privacy-compliant peer-to-peer communication platform yet? (something like the bittorrent of messaging and chat and blogs etc)
Abandoned, unmaintained, deprecated or unreleased: Ricochet, TOR Messenger, Cwtch
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TOR Messenger
ricochet.im website not working (??)
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A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community
> there isn't a currently easily available obvious way to have private secure conversations.
Ricochet[1] works really well. It uses Tor hidden services to communicate. Your Ricochet ID is your onion address. To add a contact, you input their Ricochet ID and a short message, and Ricochet connects to their onion address and sends a contact request. If the contact request is accepted then you'll each show up as a contact on each other's client and can chat whenever you want.
Tor is really perfect for this, you can't get more private or censorship-resistant than Tor.
The UI is currently not great, but that's not a protocol problem.
The biggest problem with Ricochet is that hardly anyone is using it.
[1] https://ricochet.im/
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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?
Tox - The future of online communications.
Xray-core - Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core, with XTLS support. Fully compatible configuration.
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
serverless-dns - The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, and Fly.io
ricochet-refresh - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
pivpn-docker - Run PiVPN in a Container!
Speek - Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications
Signal-TLS-Proxy
c-toxcore - The future of online communications.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
oxen-mobile-wallet - A Mobile Wallet for Oxen