Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging
by zerognowl on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:02AM
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> If a government wants to track me, they will find a way
Things like OTR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging Actually stops these people though, and is even labelled in some of the Snowden Files as being "Catastrophic" to their efforts. But you are right, if they can't get chat on you they can just target you inside the Internet and send a malware payload disguised as an update to your browser.
Things like OTR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging Actually stops these people though, and is even labelled in some of the Snowden Files as being "Catastrophic" to their efforts. But you are right, if they can't get chat on you they can just target you inside the Internet and send a malware payload disguised as an update to your browser.