We are also excited about systems like Ricochet, which try to solve this problem, and would encourage you to look at their designs and use them too.

However, your route to the server will be hidden because you are communicating over Tor. This has traditionally been in a client-server model, meaning that your metadata (specifically the relationships between contacts) can be logged by the server. Now you would like to replace WhatsApp with Signal and a few other tools just to compare the functionality and choose what works for you. Let’s say you use WhatsApp web, Slack, and Telegram on Mac.

Tor Messenger builds on the networks you are familiar with, so that you can continue communicating in a way your contacts are willing and able to do. It’s main job is connecting messengers and video conferencing tools in one place to streamline the way you communicate on Mac. It supports a wide variety of transport networks, including Jabber (XMPP), IRC, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, Twitter, Yahoo, and others enables Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging automatically and has an easy-to-use graphical user interface localized into multiple languages. Tor Messenger-based on Instantbird, an instant messaging client developed in the Mozilla community-is a cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. Please see the announcement on the blog for more information As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained.

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