Tired of the NSA monitoring everything that you do? Or at least the fear that they might be for no reason? Well, the people at BitTorrent have created a new encrypted peer to peer chat client that enables truly secure chat between two people. The application is called BitTorrent Bleep and is an end to end encrypted peer to peer chat client which is designed to completely remove any vulnerabilities in the chatting process. You can also send voice messages via BitTorrent Bleep, so voice communication is secure as well, unlike other services like Skype.

BitTorrent Bleep Screen

BitTorrent Bleep allows you to communicate on your own terms and do it without the fear of anyone else watching or listening. BitTorrent is completely unaware and completely free of all liability of what you say to each other on Bleep (similar to what Kim Dotcom did with Mega) and they cannot snoop on you even if they wanted to. That’s why its called Bleep, everything is bleeped out and they nor anyone else other than your target person can see what you’re saying.

A few applications they’re considering are; Friends talking amongst eachother and nobody else. Journalists communicating with sources without exposing their identity or the content of the conversation. Members of diplomatic crops sharing private cables/dispatches. Businesses that want to keep confidential and proprietary information safe from leaks and industrial espionage and many more.

Email invitations for BitTorrent Bleep will go out today and allow early testers to access their pre-Alpha build of Bleep for Windows desktop (7 or 8). There will be other platforms coming later, but as of right now Windows desktop is the primary platform. You can sign up with an email, mobile phone number, or incognito (unlisted). Testers will also be able to invite friends, but those friends must also have windows desktops (for now). Testers of this Alpha build will also have the option to import their Google address book locally to the app to quickly find friends. Text and voice calls can be made to online contacts, meaning that people will have to be online in order to get your messages. The app does not currently support offline messages, yet. Finally, an account can only be used on a single device/installation and cannot be moved to another device.

Ignoring all of these Alpha-build limitations of BitTorrent Bleep, it finally sounds like the big companies involved in the net are starting to respond to the NSA revelations and taking encryption and privacy seriously. It will be interesting to see how many people actually start using BitTorrent Bleep and how quickly the NSA and other agencies will work to reverse engineer and defeat its encryption. As far as we know, all major chat applications are now easily monitored and intercepted, so if anything it’ll be some time until the NSA even can get close to cracking it. Even though BitTorrent specifically built this application with end to end encryption with the NSA and other agencies in mind.

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During the raid on Kim Dotcom’s property, the NZ Police took countless computers and hard drives from his residence and offices, many of which were fully encrypted. However, there was a lot of data on those drives that the NZ Police had no right in sharing with the FBI or any US authorities. In fact, they had already shared copies of the drives’ encrypted data to the FBI, which by now has probably cracked the encryption without Kim Dotcom’s keys. Kim’s lawyers have been wrangling with the policy negotiating whether or not he would provide the encryption keys to them and under what circumstances.

According to a recent ruling, a judge has ruled that the NZ Police cannot provide the FBI with any of the keys that Kim Dotcom may provide them with in order to access the data on the hard drives. The problem is that all of these assets were effectively seized from Kim Dotcom’s residence and offices without any real evidence of wrong-doing and they still haven’t really provided much of a case against him. Kim Dotcom is still technically under house arrest but he hasn’t really been found guilty of any official charges because the Crown Prosecution has failed on many counts trying to include evidence that would later be thrown out. Realistically, most of what the New Zealand authorities have done to Kim Dotcom has been mostly unfounded and based upon murky charges levied by US authorities, which technically have no jurisdiction over New Zealand. Furthermore, they are still trying to have him extradited to the US where they would try to get him to stand trial, but the possibility that he will be extradited is hopefully low considering all of the mistakes the New Zealand authorities have made.

The justice that ruled against the NZ authorities sharing Dotcom’s keys with the FBI and other agencies ruled this partially because they had already provided the US authorities with harddrives and copies of data that they weren’t supposed to give them to begin with. This once again shows the New Zealand authorities’ incompetence as well as the likelihood of how unfounded the US authorities’ case was when they had initiated the raid on Dotcom’s property and Megaupload.

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