[wplug] Tox

Pat Barron pat at lectroid.com
Mon Jul 28 18:34:45 EDT 2014


I see the same issue here on Firefox, and am redirected to some site 
that purports to be some kind of Minecraft server.

Did someone maybe hijack their DNS?

--Pat.

On 7/28/2014 4:58 PM, Douglas Green wrote:
> 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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