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BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by lewisl9029 »

Cantremeber wrote: post #2

No mention of it being open source and after what happened with Sync I don't understand who would use this.

Yeah I'm not sure what their target market is either.

Proprietary software is fine for a lot of things, but anything concerning security and privacy absolutely requires the additional transparency and scrutiny offered by open-source.

I guess they are planning to market it to people who are worried about privacy but not tech-savvy enough to be able to understand these fundamental deficiencies of proprietary software, but that just seems really unsavory to me... But then again this is the same company that tried to sneak crypto-mining software as a value added offer to their installers so I can't really say I'm surprised.

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by dmix »

lenova wrote: post #7

I would love to hear Moxie's thoughts on Bleep and whether he thinks this is secure or not...

Two benefits over TextSecure that I can see:

- Doesn't require your mobile phone number to use it

- Not dependant on google services on Android

Downsides:

- Cant beat Textsecures crypto - Not opensource

The last two points make this a no-go for me.

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by lewisl9029 »

rpedroso wrote: post #5
azdle wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, what happened to sync?

There was some concern about the security of the product: http://2014.hackitoergosum.org/bittorrentsync-security-priva... These concerns were amplified by the difficulty of auditing a closed-source product. Their argument that hashes are one-time secrets and not permanent keys is difficult to validate without access to the source.

I personally switched to Syncthing (and the Syncthing-GTK GUI) and never looked back.

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by solomatov »

joshstrange wrote: post #6

I don't trust anything released by BitTorrent. Sync was a huge let down and frankly I'm not going to waste my time on any more of their software after the ad/toolbar/bitcoin-mining infested installers they put out for uTorrent...

Completely agree with you. If they want it to be focused on privacy, they should at least document their protocol.

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by anonbanker »

Cantremeber wrote: post #2

No mention of it being open source and after what happened with Sync I don't understand who would use this.

Do you like Bittorrent? Do you like Chatting with others?

Then You'll Love Bittorrent Bleep!

EDIT: I didn't say it was a good mindset. I just think Bittorrent is trying to leverage it's name into new markets, while alienating it's core users and promoters.

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by higherpurpose »

joshstrange wrote: post #6

I don't trust anything released by BitTorrent. Sync was a huge let down and frankly I'm not going to waste my time on any more of their software after the ad/toolbar/bitcoin-mining infested installers they put out for uTorrent...

Care to elaborate on why Sync is a huge let down?

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by mike-cardwell »

FreeKill wrote: post #4

I'm very intrigued by Bleep, I think that attempting to leverage the bitorrent protocol in a chat platform is a unique take, that I would like to see continue to evolve. However, I think it's important that they open the source up for this project and even potentially offer the ability for me to install and run my own server. I think until they take those steps, it will be difficult for them to gain any kind of large…

Run your own server? From my understanding there is no server involved. It is peer to peer and peers find each other by using DHT. It's closed source though, so you have to take their word on that.
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