Author: Zeljka Zorz HNS Managing Editor/Posted on 02 September 2014.
If you like the convenience of Skype, but you are worried about government surveillance and don't trust Microsoft to keep you safe against it, Tox might be just the thing for you.
Tox is a free and open source peer to peer messaging application that aims to replace the popular Microsoft's VoIP and IM service. Tox is actually the name of the program's core, which handles the messages and the encryption, and to use it one needs to download a client for the platform they use. Not all clients have the same features, but the main desktop ones support messaging, video and audio chat.
http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/utox-02092014-small.jpg
In a recent report by Wired, David Lohle, a spokesperson for the Tox project, explained its inception.
It all started on 4chan, in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about NSA's spying activities, which implicated Microsoft as a "collaborator" of the US intelligence community. A group of members of the site’s tech forum began discussing the creation of a Skype alternative that will not be susceptible to surveillance efforts.
Help Net Security/ full article here/ http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17317
Login to the community
No account yet? Create an account
Enter your username or e-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.