Metadata collection finally foiled?

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http://www.wired.com/2014/09/new-encrypted-chat-program-thwarts-nsa-eliminating-metadata/

With metadata suddenly in the spotlight, Brooks decided earlier this year to dust off his Ricochet program and tweak it to make it more elegant—he knew he'd still have a problem, however, getting anyone to adopt it. He wasn't a known name in the security world and there was no reason anyone should trust him or his program.

Enter Invisible.im, a group formed by Australian security journalist Patrick Gray. Last July, Gray announced that he was working with HD Moore, developer of the Metasploit Framework tool used by security researchers to pen-test systems, and with another respected security professional who goes by his hacker handle The Grugq, to craft a secure, open-source encrypted chat program cobbled together from parts of existing anonymity and messaging systems—such as Prosody, Pidgin and Tor. They wanted a system that was highly secure, user friendly and metadata-free. Gray says his primary motivation was to protect the anonymity of sources who contact journalists.

"At the moment, when sources contact a journalist, they're going to leave a metadata trail, whether it's a phone call record or instant message or email record [regardless of whether or not the content of their communication is encrypted]," he says. "And that data is currently accessible to authorities without a warrant."

When Brooks wrote to say he'd already designed a chat program that eliminated metadata, Gray and his group took a look at the code and quickly dropped their plan to develop their own tool, in favor of working with Brooks to develop his.

[Reginald Ret]

Oh nice!
Also, they got a good reason to use this legit-like.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Nifty!
Crypto is one thing, but this.. what message? Where? Wasn't me!
Maybe they'll finally get back to some good old humint dirty work now.