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What Sean Penn Teaches Us About How Not to Chat With a Fugitive

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What Sean Penn Teaches Us About How Not to Chat With a Fugitive : Tor is short for The Onion Router (thus the logo) and was initially a worldwide network of servers developed with the U.S. Navy that enabled people to browse the internet anonymously. Now, it's a non-profit organization whose main purpose is the research and development of online privacy tools. The Tor network disguises your identity by moving your traffic across different Tor servers, and encrypting that traffic so it isn't traced back to you. Anyone who tries would see traffic coming from random nodes on the Tor network, rather than your computer. (For a more in-depth explanation, check out this post from our sister blog, Gizmodo). Tor: The Anonymous Internet, and If It's Right for You

Secure Messaging Scorecard | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Secure Messaging Scorecard | Electronic Frontier Foundation : Off-The-Record Messaging for Mac (Adium) Source; http://theintercept.com/2016/01/12/sean-penn-el-chapo-opsec/ Encrypted in transit? Encrypted so the provider can’t read it? Can you verify contacts’ identities? Are past comms secure if your keys are stolen? Is the code open to independent review? Is security design properly documented? Has there been any recent code audit? Featured Tools All Tools Encrypted in transit? Encrypted so the provider can’t read it? Can you verify contacts’ identities? Are past comms secure if your keys are stolen? Is the code open to independent review? Is security design properly documented? Has there been any recent code audit? AIM BlackBerry Messenger BlackBerry Protected ChatSecure + Orbot CryptoCat Ebuddy XMS Facebook chat FaceTime Google Hangouts/Chat "off the record" Hushmail iMessage iPGMail Jitsi + Ostel Kik Messenger Mailvelope Mxit Off-The