I'd like to have an anonymous conversation - Revision history

Floriana: added tool

2015-11-26T14:30:56Z

added tool

Floriana at 18:52, 24 November 2015

2015-11-24T18:52:10Z

Dmitri at 11:22, 24 November 2015

2015-11-24T11:22:00Z

Dmitri at 11:21, 24 November 2015

2015-11-24T11:21:30Z

Floriana: evening the general tone

2015-11-20T14:50:07Z

evening the general tone

Dmitri: added tor messenger

2015-11-15T19:11:07Z

added tor messenger

Dmitri at 23:11, 23 September 2015

2015-09-23T23:11:44Z

Dmitri at 00:07, 31 August 2015

2015-08-31T00:07:14Z

Dmitri at 19:00, 30 August 2015

2015-08-30T19:00:26Z

Dmitri at 18:37, 30 August 2015

2015-08-30T18:37:30Z

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 |Scenario Task Parent=Online Conversations
 |Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
-|Scenario Tools and Services=Ricochet IM, Tor Messenger, Pidgin Adium,
+|Scenario Tools and Services=Ricochet IM, Tor Messenger, Pidgin Adium, Bleep
 |Scenario Task Description=In order to have an anonymous conversation, you need to connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity. In general, what you have to look for is a tool or a service that hides your IP address, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section.

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 {{Scenario Task
-|Scenario Task Format=Scenario
+|Scenario Task Format=Solution
 |Scenario Task Parent=Online Conversations
 |Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
 |Scenario Tools and Services=Ricochet IM, Tor Messenger, Pidgin Adium,
 |Scenario Task Description=In order to have an anonymous conversation, you need to connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity. In general, what you have to look for is a tool or a service that hides your IP address, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section.

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 |Scenario Task Parent=Online Conversations
 |Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
-|Scenario Tools and Services=Ricochet IM, Tor Messenger,
+|Scenario Tools and Services=Ricochet IM, Tor Messenger, Pidgin Adium,
 |Scenario Task Description=In order to have an anonymous conversation, you need to connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity. In general, what you have to look for is a tool or a service that hides your IP address, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section.

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 |Scenario Task Parent=Online Conversations
 |Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
 |Scenario Task Description=In order to have an anonymous conversation, you need to connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity. In general, what you have to look for is a tool or a service that hides your IP address, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section.

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 |Scenario Task Parent=Online Conversations
 |Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
-|Scenario Task Description=An anonymous conversation means that the real IP addresses of the conversing parties is hidden, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section. Similar methods apply to online conversations - connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity.
+|Scenario Task Description=In order to have an anonymous conversation, you need to connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity. In general, what you have to look for is a tool or a service that hides your IP address, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section.
 *[https://ricochet.im/ Ricochet] client is a peer-to-peer messaging app that creates a [https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en Tor Hidden Service] to enable anonymity for the conversing parties. "Instead of a username, you get a unique address that looks like ricochet:rs7ce36jsj24ogfw. Other Ricochet users can use this address to send a contact request."
-*[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-messenger-beta-chat-over-tor-easily Tor Messenger] is a new tool, currently in BETA, from the Tor project team. It is a "cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. 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."
+*[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-messenger-beta-chat-over-tor-easily Tor Messenger] is a new tool that has been just released to the public by the Tor project team. Quoting from Tor Project's blog, it is a "cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. 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."
-*[http://www.bleep.pm/ Bleep] messenger is built on top of BitTorrent, a file sharing peer-to-peer to infrastructure. There is no central server and connections between conversing parties are made directly, with content encrypted between the parties. It is not in strictly speaking, anonymous relying on the protocol to route a connection through other BitTorrent users.
+*[http://www.bleep.pm/ Bleep] messenger is built on top of BitTorrent, a file sharing peer-to-peer infrastructure. There is no central server and connections between conversing parties are made directly, with content encrypted between the parties. It is not, strictly speaking, anonymous as it relies on IP addresses to route a connection through other BitTorrent users.
-*If you want to keep your current chat address and existing contact lists whilst adding anonymity properties to your conversations, install the [https://help.riseup.net/ca/chat/clients/pidgin#tor-with-pidgin-configuration Pidgin or Adium chat clients] and configure them to work over the Tor network. This approach is explained in detail in [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/ Chatting in secret while we're being watched] article from the Intercept. In addition, please read [[I want to know about secure chat]] and ensure that your recipients have performed the same steps.
+*If you want to keep your current chat address and existing contact lists whilst adding anonymity properties to your conversations, install the [https://help.riseup.net/ca/chat/clients/pidgin#tor-with-pidgin-configuration Pidgin or Adium chat clients] and configure them to work over the Tor network. This approach is explained in detail in [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/ Chatting in secret while we're being watched], an article by Micah Lee published in The Intercept. In addition, you should read [[I want to know about secure chat]] and ensure that your recipients have performed the same steps.
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 |Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
 |Scenario Task Description=An anonymous conversation means that the real IP addresses of the conversing parties is hidden, as explained in the [[Identity or Location]] section. Similar methods apply to online conversations - connect to the network anonymously or via a service that protects your identity to enable anonymity.
-* [https://ricochet.im/ Ricochet] client is a peer-to-peer messaging app that creates a [https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en Tor Hidden Service] to enable anonymity for the conversing parties. "Instead of a username, you get a unique address that looks like ricochet:rs7ce36jsj24ogfw. Other Ricochet users can use this address to send a contact request." [http://www.bleep.pm/ Bleep Messengeer] is built on top of BitTorrent, a file sharing peer-to-peer to infrastructure. There is no central server and connections between conversing parties are made directly, with content encrypted between the parties. It is not in essence anonymous relying on the protocol to route a connection through other BitTorrent users.
+* [https://ricochet.im/ Ricochet] client is a peer-to-peer messaging app that creates a [https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en Tor Hidden Service] to enable anonymity for the conversing parties. "Instead of a username, you get a unique address that looks like ricochet:rs7ce36jsj24ogfw. Other Ricochet users can use this address to send a contact request." [http://www.bleep.pm/ Bleep Messengeer] is built on top of BitTorrent, a file sharing peer-to-peer to infrastructure. There is no central server and connections between conversing parties are made directly, with content encrypted between the parties. It is not in strictly speaking, anonymous relying on the protocol to route a connection through other BitTorrent users.
-*If you want to keep your current chat address and existing contact lists whilst adding anonymity properties to your conversations, install the [https://help.riseup.net/ca/chat/clients/pidgin#tor-with-pidgin-configuration Pidgin or Adium chat clients] and configure them to work over the Tor network. In addition, please read [[I want to know about secure chat]] and ensure that your recipients have performed the same steps.
+*If you want to keep your current chat address and existing contact lists whilst adding anonymity properties to your conversations, install the [https://help.riseup.net/ca/chat/clients/pidgin#tor-with-pidgin-configuration Pidgin or Adium chat clients] and configure them to work over the Tor network. This approach is explained in detail in [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/ Chatting in secret while we're being watched] article from the Intercept. In addition, please read [[I want to know about secure chat]] and ensure that your recipients have performed the same steps.
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