Jfreegman

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   by Jfreegman 12y ago

   That's partially true. However if you force TCP connections (in Toxic this is done with the -t flag) your IP is effectively hidden from your contacts because all your traffic gets relayed by TCP nodes in the network. The downside is th
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   by Jfreegman 12y ago

   Unfortunately, being affiliated with 4chan means we attract a lot of trolls pretending to be "ex-devs" or "concerned members of the community" who have nothing better to do with their time than to spread FUD ( https:&#x2
3. 33.▲
   by Jfreegman 12y ago

   Toxic has 1 on 1 audio chats, and GUI clients such as uTox and qTox additionally have group audio, as well as 1 on 1 video. Both clients are usable, though I would personally recommend qTox.
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   by Jfreegman 12y ago

   Tox is DHT/P2P based which means it does not rely on any type of centralized authority, and all traffic is encrypted using the sodium crypto library ( https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium ). Full disclosure: Tox ha
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   by Jfreegman 12y ago

   True, but I figure it's close enough. There is a true CLI client for Tox called Ratox. It's pretty neat. https://wiki.tox.im/Ratox
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   Toxic – A distributed, secure, command-line based instant messenging client(github.com)

   127 points by Jfreegman 12y ago|81 comments