Hacktivismo launches ScatterChat

un1xl0ser writes to tell us Hacktivismo has released a new chat program known as ScatterChat. It is a friendly fork of GAIM that "provides end-to-end encryption, integrated onion-routing with Tor, secure file transfers, and easy-to-read documentation." This announcement was made at HOPE, where CDs were distributed. A torrent and several screenshots are also available."

Tor?

[NixLuver]

Tor is a great idea. My few forays into that dimension have been, however, somewhat disappointing, speed wise. I'm not sure how well it's going to deal with a realtime app like IM. Aside from the path obfuscation provided by tor, I'm not sure how this is significantly more ... newsworthy... than OTR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-record_messag ing [wikipedia.org] ) messaging. OTR provides "Perfect Forward Secrecy" and "Deniable Encryption", and plugins/local proxies/native support is already available in/for current IM clients.

Re:Tor?

[Crazyscottie]

I've been using Tor with Gaim for several months now, and rarely notice any slowdowns. I do occasionally get disconnected (for no more than a few seconds), but I've yet to determine whether that's because of Tor or just my crappy wireless connection.

Re:One small concern

[Anonymous Coward]

They didn't go out of their way.

They did what any office drone would do for a quick html fix. Except that since they're cool, they used a cool tool.

META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)"

So the moral of the story is: Don't use your word processor to write your hypertext markup, kids. Every time you do, God Kills a Kitten.