Story 2014-08-09 3SE Metadata war escalates with Bittorrent Bleep for secure phone calls and texts

Metadata war escalates with Bittorrent Bleep for secure phone calls and texts

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story imageBitTorrent Bleep expands the Bittorent protocol to enable people to make voice calls and send messages over the Internet without using a central server to direct traffic. Users will find one another through groups of other users, with no records of the calls or texts stored anywhere along the way. Once a connection is made for a call or text, the communication travels directly between the two computers involved. That peer-to-peer approach also defies mass surveillance. BT Bleep is currently invitation only and limited to Windows 7 and 8.
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Metadata snooping (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-10 02:44 (#2SD)

How long, I wonder, before a law is passed to make hiding of metadata illegal.Meanwhile, TOR is a good start.Perhaps this network could use TOR for session initiation

Re: Metadata snooping (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-10 20:56 (#2SH)

seems like the encryption might be a source of overhead or slowdown? maybe not.

Re: Metadata snooping (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-11 11:07 (#3SN)

Overhead aside, I though Tor was already cracked and useless.

Re: Metadata snooping (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-11 11:22 (#3SR)

[Citation required]

Re: Metadata snooping (Score: 2, Informative)

by vanderhoth@pipedot.org on 2014-08-11 12:50 (#3SS)

Not the AC above, but it was a couple weeks ago, maybe last week. There was a story about the FBI using JavaScript enabled "malware" of sorts in a child pornography sting. My understanding is they "acquired" a server of a well known distributor and kept it running for a year. The server was setup to distribute code through TOR to people that had scripts enabled, which allowed the FBI to track people over the TOR network. Anyone competent would have been surfing with scripts disabled so TOR itself wasn't cracked, it was just how people were using it that made it appear that way.

Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, He robbed the Glendale train, He stole from the rich a (Score: -1, Troll)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-10 16:09 (#2SG)

Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man,
He robbed the Glendale train,
He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor,
He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.

Well it was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward,
I wonder how he feels,
For he ate of Jesse's bread and he slept in Jesse's bed,
And he laid poor Jesse in his grave.

(chorus)
Well Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,
Three children, [now] they were brave,
Well that dirty little coward that shot Mr. [Mister] Howard,
He laid poor Jesse [Has laid Jesse James] in his grave.

Jesse was a man, a friend to the poor,
He'd never rob a mother or a child,
There never was a man with the law in his hand,
That could take Jesse James alive.

Jesse was a man, a friend to the poor,
He'd never see a man suffer pain,
And with his brother Frank he robbed the Chicago bank,
And stopped the Glendale train.

It was on a Saturday night and the moon was shining bright,
They robbed the Glendale train,
And people they did say o'er many miles away
It was those outlaws, they're Frank and Jesse James

(chorus)
Now the people held their breath when they heard of Jesse's death,
And wondered how he ever came to fall
Robert Ford, it was a fact, he shot Jesse in the back
While Jesse hung a picture on the wall

Now Jesse went to rest with his hand on his breast,
The devil will be upon his knee.
He was born one day in the County Clay,
And he came from a solitary race.
(chorus)

What's the point? (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-11 04:50 (#2SR)

If you're using Windows, then you don't have privacy to begin with. Why bother with this?

Re: What's the point? (Score: 1)

by hyper@pipedot.org on 2014-08-11 08:54 (#3SJ)

Are you advocating that we toss the baby out with the bath water here? All Windows users can go to hell for their choice of OS?

Re: What's the point? (Score: 1)

by vanderhoth@pipedot.org on 2014-08-11 12:56 (#3ST)

You're right of course, but you're only as secure as the weakest link in the chain. If MS has back doors in their OS it doesn't matter how secure your online habits are, honestly it's like putting a band-aid on the end of a hacked off limb. I myself am willing to admit I'm a little jealous that Windows seems to get all the goodies first.

Re: What's the point? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-28 08:46 (#2R40)

A good point worth considering.
I found a vid on youtube about a bike rider who had his right arm and leg ripped off. They said he would never ride again. He proved them wrong. Got himself a bike, modified it to left arm left lef only control. Taught himself to get on the bike and ride the race track.
Moral of the story: if a stump is all you have then do what you can with what you have where you are and make the most of it.