[wplug] Tox

[Douglas Green]

Dave, thanks for the heads up. I did not get this warning with Firefox and the URL appears correct (no redirect). Ideas?
-D

> On Jul 28, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Dave Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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