{"id":254489,"date":"2018-04-03T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254489"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:02:25","slug":"tor-messenger-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/254489-tor-messenger-axed.html","title":{"rendered":"Tor Messenger axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.torproject.org\/sunsetting-tor-messenger\"><strong>Tor announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it is discontinuing support for Tor Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>Tor Messenger was introduced in 2015 as a cross-platform chat program, aimed to be secure by default by sending all traffic over Tor.<\/p>\n<p>The program also enforced encrypted one-to-one conversations by bundling and using OTR (Off-the-Record) messaging.<\/p>\n<p>The aim was to provide a client that supported a variety of transport networks, like Jabber (XMPP), IRC, Google Talk, Facebook, and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c11 beta releases later, we have, sadly, decided to discontinue supporting Tor Messenger,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>There were three reasons for this decision:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tor Messenger is based on Instantbird, which is no longer maintained by its developers.<\/li>\n<li>A centralised client-server architecture suffers from metadata leaks and Tor Messenger inherits these problems.<\/li>\n<li>Limited resources meant Tor Messenger was still in beta, and the company was ignoring requests for features and bug reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/253619-facebook-logged-your-call-and-text-history.html\">Facebook logged your call and text history<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 beta releases, Tor is discontinuing support for Tor Messenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":254491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2818,33663,49721],"class_list":["post-254489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-tor","tag-tor-messenger","tag-tor-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254513,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254489\/revisions\/254513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}