Untraceable Text Messaging

MIT Researchers Create ‘Untraceable’ Text Messaging That’s Even More Secure Than Tor

Brad Reed | December 11, 2015

Given recent news that popular online anonymity tool Tor might not be as completely secure as many of us had assumed, we were intrigued to see that some researchers at MIT are now claiming that they’ve created a way to send completely “untraceable” text messages. A team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a text messaging system that they say “provides a strong mathematical guarantee of user anonymity, while, according to experimental results, permitting the exchange of text messages once a minute or so.”

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/42785/hacking/vuvuzela-sms-text-messaging-system.html

<more at http://bgr.com/2015/12/11/mit-untraceable-sms-text-messaging/; related links: http://news.mit.edu/2015/untraceable-anonymized-communication-guaranteed-1207 (Untraceable communication — guaranteed. New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees. December 7, 2015) and http://news.mit.edu/2015/tor-vulnerability-0729 (Shoring up Tor. Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them. July 28, 2015)>