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Tox<\/a> – secure instant messaging, video conferencing, and more.<\/p>\n

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With the rise of government monitoring programs, Tox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is totally free, and comes without advertising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Tox – secure instant messaging, video conferencing, and more. With the rise of government monitoring programs, Tox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is totally free, and comes without advertising.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[90,2295,384,200,1035],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-communications","tag-instant-messaging","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-skype","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9919,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/16\/more-on-skype\/","url_meta":{"origin":22327,"position":0},"title":"More on Skype","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Let me do a little side note, before I start - Mom, you should really read this post! :) Now, just a couple of days ago I wrote that I decided to try Skype. 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