IM for political dissidents and privacy nuts

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Lachlan Grant26 July 2006, 9:44 AM

Released by Hacktivismo, a subdivision of Cult of the Dead Cow, ScatterChat combines the Gaim instant messenger with end-to-end encryption and Tor, an open source onion router that disguises the origin and destination of packets.

Do you wear foil hats to avoid totalitarian governments from reading your mind? Have trouble keeping info about your next protest rally hush hush? Paranoid about hackers reading your IM chats? Or maybe you just enjoy using encrypted tech? If so, ScatterChat, a new open-source, encrypted chat client for Windows, is for you.

Released late last week by Hacktivismo, a subdivision of Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), ScatterChat combines Gaim, end-to-end encryption, and Tor, an open source "onion router" that disguises the origin and destination of packets, making your conversation very hidden from prying eyes.

ScatterChat also features secure file transfer and plenty of documentation aimed at “non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents”.

ScatterChat is now available for Windows from http://www.scatterchat.com/.