Bleep was developed by the BitTorrent company, known for its download protocol of the same name. It focuses on security and anonymity.
“services were created and then disappeared. Some have known vulnerabilities that have been corrected. In many cases, users have felt that their privacy had been violated. “This observation that pushed the BitTorrent company, best known for its protocol and its software download, launch Bleep. BitTorrent wonders about “the social cost of technologies that bring us closer,” and believes that “your identity should not be one of those costs.” This is a milestone for the company, which seeks to revive its business.
Bleep is offered from Tuesday on Android, iOS and Windows Phone. It will soon be available in France. To use it, no need to learn his real name or email address. Bleep merely a nickname. The user is then assigned a QR code and a secret key (a series of numbers and letters) can communicate to his friends. It can also leave Bleep access its address book, to easily invite family to use the application.
No data storage
The messages exchanged on Bleep are encrypted and are not stored in the cloud. That means Bleep does not store conversations of its users on its servers, as do most email services. They are stored directly on the phones. Bleep uses P2P technology, or “peer to peer”, well known to those who download over BitTorrent. It allows two users to exchange data directly without going through a server. You can also call in on Bleep “peer to peer”.
For those who absolutely want to leave no trace, Bleep has a “Whisper” mode (whisper). In this mode, the caller’s name is hidden, and sent messages disappear 25 seconds after being read.
The anti-Snapchat
Bleep thought to crafty to be held ready to make a screenshot of the messages received in Whisper mode. This is what Snapchat users to save pictures that their friends wanted ephemeral. As the nickname of the recipient is not displayed, you can not assign incriminating words. It is possible to display the name of the person to whom it is addressed, but the conversation is then blurred. “You can make a screenshot of the conversation or the name of the issuer, but not both,” says BitTorrent.
Bleep arises against-style Snapchat, Secret and Whisper, applications that do not keep their promises of anonymity and transience. Faced with repeated controversies, Secret even had to put the key under the door. Certainly Bleep is less rich in emojis as messaging applications such as Messenger or WhatsApp, but it offers guarantees of personal data and privacy far higher.
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