[XC][XCurrency] Decentralised Trustless Privacy Platform / Encrypted XChat / Pos

[synechist]

There was an attack on the TOR network

see : http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/30/5951479/tor-says-unknown-attackers-compromised-hidden-services

If my knowledge of XC tech is correct this is actually good news for XC, because it's Xchat functions inside the TOR cloud (instead of relying on the TOR end nodes) which makes Xchat conversations impervious to packet sniffing (the method the attackers used) Furthermore XC's anonymity as a whole does not rely on TOR in general. So XC will function as a safe haven in times where TOR is compromised or under attack. So, even if the TOR network is compromised, the end user of XC will remain anonymous.

Before I put these thoughts out on Twitter, could anyone confirm whether I am correct in the above? I don't want to spread hype or fudbait.

Yeah, spread that. It's spot on.

Nice one.

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[synechist]

[more ranting]

Hoertest, can you please get over this?

You've said your piece. We heard you. Stop repeating yourself.

[Artoodeetoo]

Another attack on mintpal

Only a DDOS and a short one at that..... Not much they can do about that.. Probably all the XC panic buying

[atcsecure]

XC-EM RC5 - testnet release is now available.


http://downloads.xc-official.com/testing/XCurrency_EM_TEST_RC5.zip  -- included batch file add's -testnet & -addnode=testnet.xcnode.xc-official.com


if you get a runtime error on startup, remove the chat.dat and pubkeys.dat in the testnet2 directory


ATC ::: mg1pQANyAciWJBgdH9QBfQGvxkwabxLtNk / jeyDbvJk1gc4xBAUbh2vgUvgGeGsy1R7satWkFdDGSY6


I won't be back online until about 8pm if you EM me



Dan

[Artoodeetoo]

XC-EM RC5 - testnet release is now available.


http://downloads.xc-official.com/testing/XCurrency_EM_TEST_RC5.zip  -- included batch file add's -testnet & -addnode=testnet.xcnode.xc-official.com


if you get a runtime error on startup, remove the chat.dat and pubkeys.dat in the testnet2 directory


ATC ::: mg1pQANyAciWJBgdH9QBfQGvxkwabxLtNk / jeyDbvJk1gc4xBAUbh2vgUvgGeGsy1R7satWkFdDGSY6


I won't be back online until about 8pm if you EM me



Dan

Cheers ATC keep up the good work matey

[synechist]

XC-EM RC5 - testnet release is now available.


http://downloads.xc-official.com/testing/XCurrency_EM_TEST_RC5.zip  -- included batch file add's -testnet & -addnode=testnet.xcnode.xc-official.com


if you get a runtime error on startup, remove the chat.dat and pubkeys.dat in the testnet2 directory


ATC ::: mg1pQANyAciWJBgdH9QBfQGvxkwabxLtNk / jeyDbvJk1gc4xBAUbh2vgUvgGeGsy1R7satWkFdDGSY6


I won't be back online until about 8pm if you EM me



Dan

Woohoo!

You can all PM me on the following:


Address: mjHo9YHXpTjG7JNHAubNwHtUbGMuipazLC

Public key: xaA54eUpEPQcafpe6Q9s6fq2tTR6EdBNXNaL8MP9J47S

[Artoodeetoo]

Synechist,

Here is a link to all of the Guardian contact information, they carry out regular Snowden updates and have mentioned him being on encrypted chat etc etc

http://www.theguardian.com/help/contact-us

Here is a link to all the snowden articles

http://www.theguardian.com/world/edward-snowden

Could be worth reading before reaching out to them....

My initial thought though is to use one of these two contacts, to get a better contact on who to approach about this

Chris Elliott - Guardian readers' editor
reader@theguardian.com
Guardian readers' editor page

Stephen Pritchard - Observer readers' editor
reader@observer.co.uk
Observer readers' editor page

Here is a quote from one of his lectures...

"In his lecture, titled "You’ve Lost Privacy, Now They’re Taking Anonymity (aka Whistleblowing is Dead – Get Over It)", he spoke in vivid numbers and geographies. He said that every time I crossed nearby Bryant Park, I would be photographed 150 times, and that only five percent of my face was necessary to enable facial recognition software. Such software would be able to instantly summon up a profile that would include all the available information about me, released voluntarily on social networks or collected involuntarily by big data."

Sounds like he would love XC

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/edward-snowden-they-took-your-privacy-now-theyre-coming-for-anonymity

Take a read

[tommy1691]

XC-EM RC5 - testnet release is now available.


http://downloads.xc-official.com/testing/XCurrency_EM_TEST_RC5.zip  -- included batch file add's -testnet & -addnode=testnet.xcnode.xc-official.com


if you get a runtime error on startup, remove the chat.dat and pubkeys.dat in the testnet2 directory


ATC ::: mg1pQANyAciWJBgdH9QBfQGvxkwabxLtNk / jeyDbvJk1gc4xBAUbh2vgUvgGeGsy1R7satWkFdDGSY6


I won't be back online until about 8pm if you EM me



Dan

Dan is the best!

[braxx]

Another attack on mintpal

Only a DDOS and a short one at that..... Not much they can do about that.. Probably all the XC panic buying

charts are temporaly disabled now... but they are still alive @ bitcoinwisdom.
look at that 30-min chart

[synechist]

Synechist,

Here is a link to all of the Guardian contact information, they carry out regular Snowden updates and have mentioned him being on encrypted chat etc etc

http://www.theguardian.com/help/contact-us

Here is a link to all the snowden articles

http://www.theguardian.com/world/edward-snowden

Could be worth reading before reaching out to them....

My initial thought though is to use one of these two contacts, to get a better contact on who to approach about this

Chris Elliott - Guardian readers' editor
reader@theguardian.com
Guardian readers' editor page

Stephen Pritchard - Observer readers' editor
reader@observer.co.uk
Observer readers' editor page

Here is a quote from one of his lectures...

"In his lecture, titled "You’ve Lost Privacy, Now They’re Taking Anonymity (aka Whistleblowing is Dead – Get Over It)", he spoke in vivid numbers and geographies. He said that every time I crossed nearby Bryant Park, I would be photographed 150 times, and that only five percent of my face was necessary to enable facial recognition software. Such software would be able to instantly summon up a profile that would include all the available information about me, released voluntarily on social networks or collected involuntarily by big data."

Sounds like he would love XC

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/edward-snowden-they-took-your-privacy-now-theyre-coming-for-anonymity

Take a read

Thank you sir! That's great. I now have several links to follow up on :-)

[illodin]

Just don't ask Snowden to install any closed source software, because he won't. 

[battbot]

XC-EM RC5 - testnet release is now available.


http://downloads.xc-official.com/testing/XCurrency_EM_TEST_RC5.zip  -- included batch file add's -testnet & -addnode=testnet.xcnode.xc-official.com


if you get a runtime error on startup, remove the chat.dat and pubkeys.dat in the testnet2 directory


ATC ::: mg1pQANyAciWJBgdH9QBfQGvxkwabxLtNk / jeyDbvJk1gc4xBAUbh2vgUvgGeGsy1R7satWkFdDGSY6


I won't be back online until about 8pm if you EM me



Dan

Thanks Dan and XC team!

[Artoodeetoo]

Synechist,

Here is a link to all of the Guardian contact information, they carry out regular Snowden updates and have mentioned him being on encrypted chat etc etc

http://www.theguardian.com/help/contact-us

Here is a link to all the snowden articles

http://www.theguardian.com/world/edward-snowden

Could be worth reading before reaching out to them....

My initial thought though is to use one of these two contacts, to get a better contact on who to approach about this

Chris Elliott - Guardian readers' editor
reader@theguardian.com
Guardian readers' editor page

Stephen Pritchard - Observer readers' editor
reader@observer.co.uk
Observer readers' editor page

Here is a quote from one of his lectures...

"In his lecture, titled "You’ve Lost Privacy, Now They’re Taking Anonymity (aka Whistleblowing is Dead – Get Over It)", he spoke in vivid numbers and geographies. He said that every time I crossed nearby Bryant Park, I would be photographed 150 times, and that only five percent of my face was necessary to enable facial recognition software. Such software would be able to instantly summon up a profile that would include all the available information about me, released voluntarily on social networks or collected involuntarily by big data."

Sounds like he would love XC

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/edward-snowden-they-took-your-privacy-now-theyre-coming-for-anonymity

Take a read

Thank you sir! That's great. I now have several links to follow up on :-)

NP - can we have a snowden branded TOR stick lol

[synechist]

I'm chatting to Cryptogretzky, Ballzdeep, and Getmining.info on XChat, and...

It's awesome! - even if several UI-tweaks are still to be done.

[braxx]

Another attack on mintpal

Only a DDOS and a short one at that..... Not much they can do about that.. Probably all the XC panic buying

charts are temporaly disabled now... but they are still alive @ bitcoinwisdom.
look at that 30-min chart

mintpal charts are back up

[getmining.info]

XC-EM RC5 - testnet release is now available.

http://downloads.xc-official.com/testing/XCurrency_EM_TEST_RC5.zip  -- included batch file add's -testnet & -addnode=testnet.xcnode.xc-official.com

if you get a runtime error on startup, remove the chat.dat and pubkeys.dat in the testnet2 directory

ATC ::: mg1pQANyAciWJBgdH9QBfQGvxkwabxLtNk / jeyDbvJk1gc4xBAUbh2vgUvgGeGsy1R7satWkFdDGSY6

I won't be back online until about 8pm if you EM me

Dan

Woohoo!

You can all PM me on the following:

Address: mjHo9YHXpTjG7JNHAubNwHtUbGMuipazLC

Public key: xaA54eUpEPQcafpe6Q9s6fq2tTR6EdBNXNaL8MP9J47S

I'm chatting to Cryptogretzky, Ballzdeep, and Getmining.info on XChat, and...

It's awesome! - even if several UI-tweaks are still to be done.

First test out for me. Pretty simple. Went to the address book and entered Synechist's address. Right click > messages. Entered the Pubkey and now we're chatting. Time for some experiments.

GetMining :: n4r82yuQpPcaUvVJGaqfbYeRYUbG3Cm4jh / t8o9g4PT57hqjpXS2cp8yFSnatoymbMhnWCQkndzZCWX

[mr_random]

***The XC Daily Update***


Hello all

Time to tell the secret...

Dan noted last night that XChat will be bundled into an updated TOR Stick.






On its own XChat is:

- based on the Xnode protocol, which is the foundation of XC's nodes.

- As it stands, XChat is a true P2P protocol, with no third parties/servers, making it very hard to attack.

- XChat is encrypted from end-to-end, so no-one can snoop on your messages.



But when combined with the TOR Stick:

- Your XChat app is inside the TOR cloud. This means no exit nodes will be used, so packet sniffers can't find your IP.

- As such, although TOR is normally vulnerable to packet sniffers, it isn't for XChat.

- Also, because XChat is true P2P, it's also not subject to the other TOR vulnerability, man-in-the-middle attacks.

- The TOR Stick is its own operating system; it leaves no trace on your computer once your remove it. (This is a little bit like Tails). So when you're done chatting to someone, nobody will be able to locate and steal your information.


As a result, XChat in the TOR Stick represents a landmark moment in messaging: true privacy.


The TOR Stick, with the latest XChat, will be available for download on Thur next week.

Bumping for anyone who missed this.

[hoertest]

Guess i'm the ranter of the day today  , whatever , just don't like how they don't play the ball back.

I ran out of coffee, could have shortened my fuse,

Don't want to go to bed angry so lets close this on a positive note.
Technically this was a great Day for XC and i appreciate that and the work the team is doing to the fullest.
Dan youre probably still pissed at me but keep up the great work , just be carefull to not get taken advantage of.  
Good night guys and have fun chatting away en privée.  

[Artoodeetoo]

Maybe we should have a daily update and a ranter of the day award

[CryptoGretzky]

Would advise people to add their XChat address to their footer to show the other communities as you post in them.   That way, they will wonder what is this XChat thing is.