You are setting up a new device and you need to get your complex password to it from you current working laptop? You want to quickly copy a private key from one PC to another? You want to quickly share a prompt with another device? You want to quickly share a text snippet with your MacBook?
Then you need 9. A simple browser based text sharing tool.
It’s anonyous. You don’t need to register.
It’s secure. Once a connection is established, the text is encrypted and sent directly to the other device. No server in between.
It’s quick. Quickly scan a QR code if you use your mobile phone. Or type in the 6-digit code if you use another computer (which shortly utilizes Cloudeflare’s WebRTC implementation to establish a direct connection).
If your devices are not on the same network 9 utilizes STUN by Google to establish a direct connection. Still, the text is being exchanged directly between the two devices.
Summary
9 is a browser-based, serverless tool that transfers text between two devices over an encrypted peer-to-peer WebRTC connection, using a QR code or 6-digit code to pair. Anonymous, no registration, open source.
Main Topics: Tools WebRTC Datenschutz
Difficulty: easy
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