Ricochet, A New Chat App, Aims to Be Even More Secure than Encryption

The chat app aims to hide even metadata, the graph of its users connections and activity (as opposed to just hiding the content of messages).

Ricochet applies Tor-like tech to cloak the user's device, not just web destinations. Messages also do not use a central server to send messages, so the data does not exist there.

“There’s no record in the cloud somewhere that you ever used it,” John Brooks, the 25-year-old developer said of his app. "It’s all mixed in with everything else happening in Tor. You’re invisible among the crowd.”