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The DarkIRC messenger, which is positioned as "the most reliable anonymous chat in the world", has entered the alpha testing phase. This was announced by "old school" bitcoin developer Amir Taaki.
According to him, the reason for creating the decision was "the brutal censorship of cryptocurrency developers by authoritarian regimes."
The main feature of DarkIRC is the "lack of identification". Users of the app can change their nickname at any time, so messages cannot be assigned to a specific person.
"All other apps force you to register or generate keys. This then becomes your ID. All your messages are linked to this ID. But DarkIRC has no identity. You just send messages to an anonymous P2P network based on Tor," Taaki explained.
To combat spam, the messenger uses zeros of speed limits at the network level, which prevent network overflow. Each channel can set its own policy for publications, and users can add optional moderation.
DarkIRC full node running over Tor
DarkIRC works on any computer and mobile device. You can set your own interface or IRC frontend for the application.
"The EU forced Telegram to hand over all chat data to them. This is the new normal. But that's enough. A free society should have freedom of speech. Freedom of speech implies any word. […] Our goal is to make the internet wild again with a dense, dark forest of encryption. This dark forest shelters and protects freedom. This is an internet with massive strong cryptography everywhere, impervious to surveillance," the developer concluded.
According to him, the reason for creating the decision was "the brutal censorship of cryptocurrency developers by authoritarian regimes."
The main feature of DarkIRC is the "lack of identification". Users of the app can change their nickname at any time, so messages cannot be assigned to a specific person.
"All other apps force you to register or generate keys. This then becomes your ID. All your messages are linked to this ID. But DarkIRC has no identity. You just send messages to an anonymous P2P network based on Tor," Taaki explained.
To combat spam, the messenger uses zeros of speed limits at the network level, which prevent network overflow. Each channel can set its own policy for publications, and users can add optional moderation.
DarkIRC full node running over Tor
DarkIRC works on any computer and mobile device. You can set your own interface or IRC frontend for the application.
"The EU forced Telegram to hand over all chat data to them. This is the new normal. But that's enough. A free society should have freedom of speech. Freedom of speech implies any word. […] Our goal is to make the internet wild again with a dense, dark forest of encryption. This dark forest shelters and protects freedom. This is an internet with massive strong cryptography everywhere, impervious to surveillance," the developer concluded.
