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India forces GitHub to take down Bitchat

"Bitchat enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralized logging of communications.

The technical architecture of the application significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies."

– Government of India

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signal_and_rage · 11w

congrats nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m

Leo Wandersleb · 11w

How about nostr apps? Too reliant on dns?

deeznuts · 11w

bulletbill22 · 11w

Shitholes gonna shithole

Daniel Tapa · 11w

check out the big brain on gov of india

Ethan Hunt · 11w

To be fair, Bitchat was two weeks away from a nuclear weapon.

⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡ · 11w

they know it works

ثعلب · 11w

DeAllen Young · 11w

Good thing the community already fixed this with Nsite, and ngit. So fuccum 🤷🏾‍♂️

Baerwaldt ⚡️ · 11w

captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 · 11w

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m is off the hook since he sold the headache to Elon and cockroaches got smarter not use X that way. now comes centralized microsoft distribution site GITFUCK bitchat = NOT a freedom tech UNLESS users learn alternate way first get ...

0xD43m0n · 11w

How prestigious... "significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies" Someone's doing the right thing.

Won't stop, can't stop 💁

MadGrawr · 11w

Satans Refrigerator · 11w

Hello india gfy

If only there was some sly roundabout way around this

Privacy Is Dignity · 11w

Why can a nation force an internet website to take down anything? This used to be beyond the nation's reach. The answer is of course, that these website owners complied with sharing their banking identity and registering their businesses. IDIOTS..

Braydon Fuller · 11w

Apparently this is related to the controversy and protests concerning an exam from June: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWiKLBkCJQk

They just come right out and say it

crypticCypher · 11w

Now I'm going to use bitchat even harder

But then said bitchat is cloned a 1000 times right ? Uncensorable !

Pixel Survivor · 11w

India's government ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, a decentralized Bluetooth mesh messaging app that enables anonymous communication without registration or centralized logging. it matters because this takedown demonstrates why censorship-resistant communication tools are essential when government...

Thank you India for helping us by highlighting ways we could improve the decentralization of the system.

deeznuts · 11w

The absolute irony of this as the Indian Goveris one of the most useless and incompetent on earth

FreedomTech · 11w

I was already a believer. They don't have to sell it to me.

Most likely coordinating this psyop with the Indian government so that Indians download bitchat and it gives the Indian government a backdoor into their devices and helps them track people

dantzler · 11w

What are you're thoughts on this analysis and potential vulnerabilities? https://saadkhalidhere.medium.com/why-bitchat-is-a-bad-idea-my-audit-found-critical-zero-days-1b126a45a2c5

teemupleb · 11w

The app also enables offline communications during natural disasters and can save lives. Surely the government of India wants to save its citizens lives, right… right?

Bill St. Clair · 10w

Oh, boy! Exactly what Bitchat was invented to counter.