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Tor to launch instant messaging sevice next month

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The Tor Project is well known for its anonymous browsing software among other things, and now the group has a <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/tor-to-launch-instant-messaging-sevice.html" target="_blank">new messaging service</a>
 in development. According to news from the Tor 2014 Winter Developers 
conference in Iceland, the service is an anonymous instant messenger 
that works with the open source InstantBird client.<br />
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Tor Instant <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/tor-to-launch-instant-messaging-sevice.html" target="_blank">Messaging </a>Bundle (TIMB), as the service is known, has 
already gone into experimental release and is set to launch a public 
beta at the end of March. Reports say the team hopes to have a more 
finalized build of TIMB bundled with Tor Launcher in the coming months.<br />
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While things like TorChat already boast a considerably large userbase, 
some have suggested an anonymous chat service fully integrated into the 
Tor<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/tor-to-launch-instant-messaging-sevice.html" target="_blank"> Launcher</a> could bolster interest significantly. However, the Tor team
 has put the focus on its security measures for TIMB front and center, 
having hired outside experts to ensure that “people in countries where 
communication for the purpose of activism is met with intimidation, <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/tor-to-launch-instant-messaging-sevice.html" target="_blank">
violence</a>, and prosecution will be able to avoid the scrutiny of criminal
 cartels, corrupt officials, and authoritarian governments.”<br />
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A world once reserved only for those comfortable with a command line 
(or the patients/skill to use other encryption software), has slowly 
become more accessible because of the now 30 developers or so behind the
 Tor Project. Spread across the globe, the non-profit team takes in 
about $2 million in donations a year for its efforts, according to 
reports. <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/tor-to-launch-instant-messaging-sevice.html" target="_blank">TIMB</a> is part of the group's continued goal to make its secure 
products easy to use for anyone with a computer.