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I wonder if this wouldn't also be illegal? I know the US has terrible regulation of privacy for private entities - but AFAIK plain text email is covered by the assumption of privacy, so listening in/reading it would be considered wire-tapping. I'm also not sure how much of that (if any) someone below 18 is able to legally sign away?

At any rate, an interesting article. It might have been interesting to set up something similar, just bundling an XMPP client and OTR, and having an XMPP-server per school/"cicrle" for pairing (could probably even require school logins for registering on sign-up -- just make sure to throw that information away (beyond possibly keeping age/gender tag).

With the caveat that secure, anonymous communication and "web browser" doesn't really mix -- it could probably be set up as web page/service too (Not sure if eg: Matrix has a web/js-client that does/tries to do client side OTR or equivalent?).

We had IRC, with chat-rooms per town -- as not everyone had Internet in the 90s in Norway. But that did afford some people pseudonymity.