[wplug] Tox

[Dave Ostroske]

Just a heads-up... I tried going to www.tox.im, and Chromium gave me this
warning: "You attempted to reach *www.tox.im <http://www.tox.im>*, but
instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *www.ipwnage.com
<http://www.ipwnage.com>*."

The download link is fine. but they've got to do something about their main
website.

-- Dave Ostroske


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Justin Smith <justin at adminix.net> wrote:

> Hey, have any of you been following Tox[1]? It's a free and open source
> alternative to Skype.
>
> It's easy for the NSA to listen in on services like Skype because the
> messages people send have to go through a corporation's servers
> before they are delivered to the other person's computer. Tox is
> decentralized: your conversations go directly to the other person's
> computer. As a bonus, it requires no configuration: you just install Tox
> and you're ready to go.
>
> I didn't realize this, but apparently, Tox had its alpha release a few
> weeks ago. You can grab a copy from the official download page[2].
>
> Tox isn't too difficult to figure out. You can click the "Tox User" field
> in bold
> to set your username, and click the "Toxing on Venom 0.2.0" to set your
> status. In order to chat with other Tox users, they need to know your Tox
> ID. You can get this by clicking on the green circle and choosing *Copy
> ID to Clipboard*. You can then paste it where necessary.
>
> My Tox ID is
> 578A4698A4C1A6E97AB08BDBB9D29BB0D207B10928156D007FA0B
> 74A3A7AA841B022B3F6BF2D
>
> To add someone to your contact list, click the *+* sign at the bottom of
> the Tox window. If you'd like to chat, send me a message! Let's help the
> Tox developers build a communication network for the post-Snowden
> era.
>
> --
> *Justin Smith*
> GNU/Linux System Administrator
>
> /"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees.
> That'll do them in!"/
> /-Author Unknown/
>
> --------
> [1] https://www.tox.im
> [2] https://wiki.tox.im/download.html
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