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Tor Messenger<br />
Advantages: Desktop only; Encrypted chat option; anonymity; works<br />
with pre-existing chat services.<br />
The Tor project recently released a beta version of a traditional<br />
desktop instant messenger called Tor Messenger (go.pcworld.com/<br />
tormessenger), based on the Instantbird project. Tor’s version<br />
features Off-the-Record (OTR) encrypted messaging and, because it<br />
uses the Tor network, provides a reasonable amount of anonymity<br />
as well. To take advantage of OTR, the person you’re chatting also<br />
needs an OTR-enabled chat client.<br />
Tor Messenger integrates with a number of existing chat services,<br />
including Google Talk, Facebook Chat (not working at this writing), and<br />
Yahoo. The program also works with Twitter, IRC, and generic XMPP.<br />
Note: At this writing, the beta had a minor bug in it that caused the<br />
program to crash in Windows 10. Advanced users can fix the bug on their<br />
own with the workaround on this thread (go.pcworld.com/win10torbug).<br />
Otherwise we expect a fix to be made public soon.<br />
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