Tor Chat has been broken on and off since 2008, and now has been for over a year, again. :(The last update on the dev log at https://code.google.com/p/torchat/ was on Feb 27, and says:QuoteImportant: Tor 0.2.2.x-alpha is badly broken, hidden services don't work at all (for all known definitions of "work"). Tor 0.2.1.x (the current stable release) is also broken but not nearly as bad. On a scale from 0 to 100 the stable version works 95% while the alpha release can only connect in about 50% of the time, half of your buddies will seem to be offline, no matter how long you wait. Some of the previous versions of TorChat came with 0.2.2.x, newer ones now come with 0.2.1.x. Unfortunately the tor project does not seem to put any priority on the hidden services, they don't use .onion themselves and I think they do not even know just how badly it is broken.Assume any malicious party you connect to can obtain your real IP address, and assume that third parties can monitor your conversations.Don't use it.