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Work · October 29, 2015

Tor Messenger

The easiest app yet for anonymous, encrypted IM

Tor Messenger launched on October 29, 2015 with 117 votes, #284 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

WARNING STARTS As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use...

As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use it . Please see the announcement for more information. Today we are releasing a new, beta version of Tor Messenger, based on Instantbird , an instant messaging client developed in the Mozilla community. Tor Messenger 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. Tor Messenger builds on…from blog.torproject.org

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