[tor-talk] Security Analysis of Instant Messenger TorChat

Blake Hadley moosehadley at gmail.com
Fri May 13 19:43:25 UTC 2016


On 5/13/16 3:39 PM, me at beroal.in.ua wrote:

> "TorChat  processes  contact  requests  and  updates  the  contact
> list  without asking  the  user's  consent." "An  attacker  can
> exploit  this  to add arbitrary contacts to the victim's contact list.
> . ." OMG, does any IM client allow this?
I think a few did back in the late 1990's
Today, that sort of thing is kinda insane.


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