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Suggestions for New Bitmessage Users
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Join Mailing Lists and Chans
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If you are like most people, you don't already have a lot of contacts using bitmessage. Become a part of the existing community by joining Mailing Lists and Chans. See "Helpful Links" below for a link to a bittext listing many of the more popular chans and lists.
Get Involved
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This is a relatively new technology with only a handful of active participants. Don't be a lurker! Start discussions, create chans or mailing lists for topics that interest you and generally do what you can to help develop the community/technology. You don't have to be a developer to contribute!
Just by maintaining an active node, you are helping to improve the anonymity of the network. By participating in chans and lists, you can help to further obscure network traffic. Other ways you might potentially help include: inviting others to use bitmessage, talking about bitmessage on social networks, creating and maintaining a moderated mailing list (research BM-Moderator for more on this), experiment with the program, submit suggestions to the developers, and/or explore some of the many projects that are being developed around bitmessage and report any bugs you discover in the process.
Advanced users and computer science guys can go a step further by reviewing the code, testing the security/anonymity of the network or proactively hunting for bugs in the software.
Netiquette for Bitmessage
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Most people post to chans using the same chan as the from: address. Chan posts are typically unsigned, meaning that there is no identity or history of posts for individual users. This creates an interesting kind of anonymous discussion that you don't see with other types of forums.
The convention when sending to a mailing list, however, is to use one of your actual bitmessage identities. As a result, mailing lists tend to read more like traditional email or message board threads. As a matter of etiquette, many users sign mailing list posts with a short nick-name, making it easier to follow list discussions.
BitChirp is a special chan that publishes messages to bitchip.org. Keep in mind that the published version of a message is truncated, as this is essentially a twitter clone for bitmessage users. Consider using other chans or lists for longer posts, conversations and debates.
Additional Security Measures
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Although no crtical flaws have been pointed out to date, bitmessage users should keep in mind that this is an early version of an experimental software that has not yet been thoroughly scrutinized. If your security/anonymity requirements are high, there are things you can do to further harden bitmessage against attack:
1. Encrypt your local installation. This protects the .dat files from being read as plain text when the program is not in use, helping to secure the program against local attacks or malware.
2. Use bitmessage from behind a tor connection. That way, even if one of your bitmessage addresses is somehow correlated to an IP address, it's the address of a tor exit node rather than your real IP.
3. Although this final suggestion may border on paranoia, if you are going to send sensitive data through bitmessage, you might consider further encrypting the message data using pgp, thus securing your message in the event that the native encryption is compromised in some way (perhaps by a man-in-the-middle attack).
Helpful Links
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Chans & Mailing Lists: http://bittext.ch/w2ujKbQxte
Bitmessage Resources: http://bittext.ch/bjWTB5ItRJ
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