Hacker News Reader

Comment by throwaway09987 | Hacker News Reader

I'm curious about ricochet, but not excited about a service that is integrated with Tor...I've heard a lot of things recently about Tor's insecurity. If this new thing is better about protecting users (as it seems it might be), then I'd definitely stay away from something interfacing with Tor.

View on HN

A lot of the high profile stories about people being busted over Tor recently have been related to vulnerabilities in FireFox/Tor Browser Bundle and the FBI running honeypots that can exploit those vulnerabilities.

Ricochet works by essentially starting up a Tor Hidden Service and then listening for messages from other users, so there's no exposure to browser-based attacks. It's end-to-end encrypted and less susceptible to traffic analysis attacks because it never hits an exit node.

honeypot has to be the most generous name for "federal government controlled and operated pedophilia distribution network" ever.

Brings new meaning to the adage about how online men are men, women are men, and kids are fbi agents...

You are ill informed. Tor is as safe as it ever was. Just be smart even using it. Please visit /r/tor and learn about it yourself. Instead of spreading disconsent through your vague wording and accepting media outlets at face value

That sounds like an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance . You hear a lot of things about Tor in general because Tor is popular and has existed for many years. Vuvuzuela is new, so we don't actually know whether it's secure or not.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com