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Bleep Now Supports Asynchronous Offline Messaging

Farid Fadaie —  December 22, 2014 — Leave a comment

Secure messaging client Bleep now allows for asynchronous chat.

Communicating privately with your friends, coworkers and family isn’t easy as you may think. While sending a “private” message may seem secure, the reality is that message still lives on a server somewhere, remaining vulnerable to third-party infiltration. In the past year alone, we have seen incidents of private photos and corporate emails being hacked and made public. This happens only because there is a honeypot, data stored in the cloud.
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How Does Bleep Work?

Farid Fadaie —  September 17, 2014 — 24 Comments

We unveiled Bleep a few weeks ago, and we have received nothing but love from our users. We’ve also had many great questions that we will be gradually answering in blog posts, our forums and other social channels. And today we’ve taken a step further, bringing Bleep to Open Alpha and adding clients for Mac and Android. There’s more to Bleep than we can fit in a single blog post, but here’s an overview of the big picture, including some high level technical details and answers to some of the questions around how Bleep works.

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Update on BitTorrent Chat

Abe —  December 19, 2013 — 90 Comments

Inside BitTorrent’s approach to building serverless messaging apps.

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First, a few words on Chat’s origins. Here at BitTorrent, we value privacy. With the news this year reminding us all of the susceptibility of the communications platforms we rely on to snooping, we found ourselves wanting something new, something secure, something private. We ultimately realized that we were uniquely qualified to build this platform.

The primary weakness that we see in the available communications platforms is that they all rely on some central server to route and store all of your communication. Even if your provider can deliver industry-standard security, they cannot provide you with any kind of assurance that your communication is private. All it takes is the right (or wrong) person gaining access to your provider’s central servers, and your privacy evaporates.

Enter BitTorrent Chat. We’re building a product that allows you to talk to your friends using peer-to-peer. No central authority required.

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