{"id":3174,"date":"2014-09-03T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:48:41","slug":"tox-a-skype-replacement-built-on-privacy-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/tox-a-skype-replacement-built-on-privacy-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Tox, a Skype Replacement Built On &#8216;Privacy First&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1x3iKBP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"191\" alt=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1CiGjXb\" width=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1sVN1Ms\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images. But it\u2019s also the birthplace of one of the latest attempts to subvert the NSA\u2019s mass surveillance program.<\/p>\n<p>When whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that full extent of the NSA\u2019s activities last year, members of the site\u2019s tech forum started talking about the need for a more secure alternative to Skype. Soon, they\u2019d opened a chat room to discuss the project and created an account on the code hosting and collaboration site GitHub and began uploading code.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Tags:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/Wa3imk\">Skype<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/PUmQo0\">Privacy<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/MLOzDi\">Security<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/Wa3jqw\">Encyption<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1rkSPkg\">Tox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>via https:\/\/ift.tt\/1x3iKBP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images. But it\u2019s also the birthplace of one of the latest attempts to subvert the NSA\u2019s mass surveillance program. When whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that full extent of the NSA\u2019s activities last year, members of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/tox-a-skype-replacement-built-on-privacy-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tox, a Skype Replacement Built On &#8216;Privacy First&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-Pc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}