One of the most important factors for users is privacy. Today our data is of great value online. There are many marketing companies that can find a way to steal information to later sell it to third parties or get us into a spam campaign. Now, luckily we can make use of many tools that focus on privacy and tuhat avoid putting our data at risk. In this article we are going to talk about Tox . It is a fully encrypted all-in-one messenger.
The importance of maintaining privacy
We must always keep privacy safe when we surf the net. There are many reasons that can cause our data to be filtered. When using social networks, services and platforms on the Internet, we can filter a lot of information that can be used against us.
The personal data of users has an important value on the Internet. They can be used as we have mentioned for Spam campaigns, create targeted advertising or even sell them to third parties.
All this is something that we have seen on important platforms. After all, they trade with our data and therefore we must avoid making them available to everyone on the network. The use of legitimate and reliable software is very important.
Tox, the encrypted all-in-one messenger
Why do we say that it is an all-in-one tool? Tox has what many users are looking for in one place. Allows you to send messages to other end-to-end encrypted users. A way to prevent potential intruders from accessing these messages and allowing them to be filtered.
It should also be noted that Tox allows voice calls and video calls . This is something that is increasingly used by users and it is important that we choose a tool that really protects our data. It is a reality that certain programs on the Internet may be maliciously modified to put our security and privacy at risk.
But in addition to this, in addition to being a messaging program , making calls and video calls in encrypted form, it also allows file sharing. File transfer over the network is widely used by users and it is important that we choose a tool that really protects the information and that cannot be leaked.
Cross-platform and decentralized
Keep in mind that Tox is a multiplatform tool . This means that we will be able to use it in most operating systems. It is present in Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
Unlike other similar services such as Skype, Hangouts or Facebook, Tox is a decentralized tool. This means that it does not have intermediaries. Our information does not go through a centralized server, but goes directly to the recipient. This is something that greatly improves privacy and is highly valued by users.
Tox is an open source tool . This means that your code can be audited for possible problems that compromise our security and privacy. Although it is safe, as it happens with other P2P programs, it can filter data such as our IP address. This means that if we want to maximize privacy we can make use of VPN services .
There are different clients that we can use for Tox . One of the most popular and the one that we have tried is uTox . We can download it from GitHub . There we will find the different versions for the operating systems that we have mentioned.
Once we run it on our system we will see that it shows us the initial configuration. It is not necessary to register and we can create a name, as well as have a Tox ID. We can also create groups with other users, for example. In the settings we can find some aspects that we can configure.
As we have mentioned uTox is one of the most popular clients, but it is not the only one. There are others that we can also use, always based on the Tox principles and end-to-end encryption.
