<p>The people behind Tor, the free software that lets users browse the Internet anonymously, plans to create a new instant messaging client that could let people chat anonymously in real time.</p><p>The group is working out the logistics of adding instant messaging software to its current Tor browser software package download, according to documents posted from the Tor Project's winter developers meeting.</p><p>Tor has grown popular over the past few years as a way of surfing the Web while blocking network surveillance, analysis of your traffic, or other monitoring that "threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security," as the Tor Project founders state. The group's work is all the more significant following reports of NSA's foreign and domestic surveillance activities.</p><p>Tor's browsing software has been somewhat stigmatized, however, for its use by some to carry out illegal or illicit activities on the Deep Web essentially, the areas of the Internet not indexed by search engines and not typically accessed by the general, non-computer-savvy public.</p><p><a href="http://recode.net/2014/02/28/the-tor-project-plans-to-build-an-anonymous-instant-messaging-app/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/28/5457256/tor-anonymous-instant-messaging-under-development">Tor developing anonymous instant messenger</a> (The Verge)</p><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/tor-is-developing-an-anonymous-instant-messaging-servic-1533574698">Tor Is Developing an Anonymous Instant Messaging Service</a> (Gizmodo)</p><p><a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/02/28/tor-project-developing-anonymous-instant-messaging-service/">Tor Project Developing Anonymous Instant Messaging Service</a> (TechnoBuffalo)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dPiBGKzv1CGRLGMBBdz-8_3VxDviM&authuser=0&ned=us">24 additional articles.</a></p>