BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent , unveiled its serverless chat client today. BitTorrent Bleep allows users to communicate via text or voice, fully encrypted and without the need for central servers.

Encrypted Internet traffic surged worldwide after the Snowden revelations, with several developers releasing new tools to enable people to better protect their privacy.

Today BitTorrent Inc. contributes with the release of BitTorrent Bleep, a communication tool that allows people to exchange information without the need for any central servers. Combined with state of the art end-to-end encryption, the company sees Bleep as the ideal tool to evade government snooping.

Bleep’s main advantage over some other encrypted messaging applications is the absence of central servers. This means that there are no logs stored, all metadata goes through other peers in the network.

“Many messaging apps are advertising privacy and security by offering end-to-end encryption for messages. But when it comes to handling metadata, they are still leaving their users exposed,” BitTorrent’s Farid Fadaie explains.

“We reimagined how modern messaging should work. Our platform enables us to offer features in Bleep that are unique and meaningfully different from what is currently available.”

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The application’s development is still in the early stages and the current release only works on Windows 7 and 8. Support for other operating systems including popular mobile platforms will follow in the future.

Aspiring Bleep users can create an account via an email or mobile phone number, but an incognito mode without the need to provide any personal details is also supported.

The new messaging app is not the only ‘breach safe’ tool the company is currently working on. Last year BitTorrent launched its Sync application which provides a secure alternative to centralized cloud backup solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive.

BitTorrent Inc. is inviting people to test the new Bleep application, but warns there are still some bugs.

Those who want to give BitTorrent Bleep a try can head over to BitTorrent’s experiments section to sign up for the pre-Alpha release.

Source: TorrentFreak

 

I hope BitTorrent.inc is not secretely owned by NSA in order to drag us into their trap without even knowing it.
Anyway, now i'm going to swapp my Skype with this Bleep.

 

Owner or not, NSA will drag us anyway....
We can run, but not hide... *no*
Thanks Catalyst for the info...

 

Evo
At least it's not owned by Microsoft (who coincidentally own Skype now) who has already been found to be handing over data to the NSA with no problems whatsoever just like the scumbags at Apple. Edward Snowden said he will be working on anti-surveillance tech so when I get a chance I will post an article about that. Also Kim is working on an encrypted chat client as well as many academic researchers. Looks like the cyberpunks were right, the only way forward is to encrypt the net.

 

The computer systems used by the NSA can guess MORE THAN 1 Billion passwords per second [according to NPR's Science Friday]. Add to that their dabbling in quantum computing & there is no other conclusion.

No hiding.

 

the worst thing is when they find some huge security holes, but nobody seems to care, and it take weeks, months to correct.

like the november 2008 attacks, where most servers were not patched, and big companies in the world were victims of.

i'm not pro linux, but i now understand why nobody "invested" on linux, and tried to make it ultra user-friendly, even if it was just a windows clone. looks like nobody wanted people to have an operating system made by geeks, where the slightest issue would be corrected in no time, by the community. on windows, everything is possible. they patch what they want to patch, they do what they want to do. X company or country needs to access people's computers ? no problem, just use hole number #43.

why wouldn't microsoft have a small dll, or whatever file, on system32 folder, that would simply scan the hard drives, or the entire local network, build a list with all the mp3, divx and other audio/video formats, and send it to microsoft servers. why wouldn't they do that ?

just like our beloved daw creators: why wouldnt, say, steinberg, create a list of all the vst plugins scanned and installed on a pc, get the serial number used, and upload it to a server where, all the vst companies could check if X user @ X ip address is using a legit serial number or a keygened serial, etc.

i'm sure snowden didn't even say 0.1% of the reality. just like apple, each department is separated from the others, ex: the coders don't know the final design, the designers don't know about the features, etc, so little to no information can leak, i'm sure that now, at companies like nsa, each guy will only have access to the data related to his direct work, instead of being able to browse the "all projects" folder.

and what truly blows my mind, is the fact that people in the US are perfectly OK with the government spying and listening to the entire world, including themselves. and they will go to their graves saying it was a good thing, because it was good for their freedom and security. wow. i imagine Merkel calling obama and saying "hey, we should stop using the special encrypted line. everybody is listening everything we say, right?"

some years ago, governments could know where people were, via gps, or save their msn chat sessions, or listen to people phone calls. but the remaining time, nobody could know what people were doing.
then, came facebook. a huge database 1 billion people is feeding, every day, every second, with their ip address, real names, addresses, phone numbers, family and friends names, with personal videos, photos, telling everybody what they have been doing the last 2 minutes. " wake up- post on facebook. headache- post on facebook. hungry-post on facebook. dhiarrea- post on facebook. sucked peter last night- post on facebook. go to see the doctor- put name and address of the doctor + phone number. got aids- post on facebook-" etc etc. everything, every second, is posted on facebook or twitter.

but there was a problem.

governments can now follow people via smartphones and gps, can listen to what they say, can read what they write. they know 99% of people's lives. but there is a problem. they don't know what doc or excel files are made, or personnal documents, photos, videos, and more sensitive information that isn't shared YET. so...

here comes the "CLOUD". suddenly, companies offer 10,20 50 gigas for FREE, so people can start uploading everything they have. Even big companies stop backing up their data locally, and start using cloud services, amazon s3 storages, etc, to save ALL their sensitive DATA. ALL. in 2014, people can simply and easily buy 2 or 3 usb sticks, and have their private files replicated on several devices. usb drives were never as cheap as now, no reason to not buy one or two external drives, and put one at parent's, and another at sister's, if FLOOD or FIRE really scare them.
But NO. more and more companies, sponsored, i imagine, by governments, that offer them millions and millions $ so they can buy petabytes of data, offer people many gigabytes, even TERAbytes, for almost nothing. after facebook, they really want all the citizens in the world to store their files on the cloud. and people and companies are actually doing it. more and more. because it's much easier to have the private files of 1 billion citizens on internet, accessible to governments or anyone that wants to access it (because it looks like X, a terrorist, has stored some files there, and they need to access ALL the files from EVERYBODY), than having to hack computers one by one, to access the data. too long, too expensive. it's much better to offer 50 gigabytes of data, for free, and let people store all their crap on the cloud.

so, after gps, smartphones, chats, files, everything + 1 billion citizens posting their life, names, numbers, everything, every minute or second, with photos, videos, etc, on facebook + having the entire world storing all their private files on the cloud, what's next ? is there anything left that these big companies and governments need do know about us ? one may call me idiot or oldfashined or whatever, but i don't have any facebook or twitter account. and even a simple thumbs up or a small comment on youtube, since they linked everything to the gmail account, i stopped posting comments. if i watch a video on youtube, about, say, compression or delay, and want to leave a comment, why should everything be shared to everybody. google goal is clearly knowing everything about us, and showing everybody what we do, like, watch, listen, etc. damn. how i hate that...


i am sure if someone create a dumb zip or rar file, and rename it "me and a 10yo thai licking my balls", with dumb video files inside, and i put a 100 chars password on it, i am sure that in less than one week, i will receive one email from someone, about my "suspicious" files. so, for those who think that all these cloud services, like dropbox, nobody can scan or see their files... just think twice.



audiosex people, let's create free dropbox accounts. and upload huge blank videos, converted to raw 4k, and let's upload hundreds of terabytes of dumb data
for those who know explorerXP, a windows xp explorer replacement app, there was a feature i loved: we can split a file into x megabytes, kilobytes.. or bytes. just imagine, a simple 1mb file, you can create 1 million files of 1 byte each. dumbfile.txt.part0000001.par ... dumbfile.txt.part999999.par. their servers would become so slow, with folders with 10 million files each. where is the satanic laughing icon ?


so yeah... that's why guys like dotcom or snowden are ennemies of the states...

i just hope one day, people will start thinking twice, and will stop posting private stuff. that will make the governments and nsa-like companies really sad, but it will be good for everybody.
humans were able to live without facebook or cloud services during more than 2000 years. i believe there are things much more important to do than posting on a wall that yesterday we ate a bigmac and today morning, the turd had a bad time to go down.



a last thing.
i sometimes wonder how long it takes, for a supercomputer, like the top 10 super calculators in the world, to find a rar password, even if it's 50 chars long, special characters, spaces, commas, ascii code, etc.
can it process like billions, or trillions passwords per second.. or is it trillions ^16 per second ?

 

+999!

 

and another thing,
can someone tell me why the newsgroups seems like "untouchable" by laws, governments, etc, since decades?