What the August 2006 notice said In August 2006 the ScatterChat project admitted that its documentation overstated one security property. The security researcher Steven Murdoch had shown that the client did not offer “perfect forward…
ScatterChat was an encrypted instant messaging client for activists and dissidents. The Hacktivismo group, which grew out of the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), released it in July 2006 at the HOPE hacker conference.…
ScatterChat was discontinued long ago. Nobody maintains it and you should not rely on it for anything sensitive. Between 2006 and 2007 it tried to give human rights activists encrypted, Tor-routed instant messaging that non-technical…
