Thefallout from the NSA spying scandalhas left many people unsure about what they should and should n’t share across the tube . But now BitTorrent has an result : aninstant - message chat clientthat habituate decentralised information transfer to keep your communication good .
Just released as a private alpha — that means you need to impose theBitTorrent Chat sign - up pageto get an invite — BitTorrent Chat uses a decentralized process to lapse message across the web while make them impossible to intercept as a whole . While BitTorrent is reluctant to explain exactly how it function , it ’s apparently “ standardized toBitTorrent Sync , but adapted for material - time communications . ”
BitTorrent hopes that over time the technology will work with other instant - message account , but for now you ’re stuck with a consecrated BitTorrent account . It ’s also not clear yet quite how full the OS web will distribute — either screen background or roving — but you ’d expect at least Windows and Linux to be supported in the first illustration .
Of course , part of the charm of instant messaging is widespread use ; it helps if plenty of your crony also use the same service . Whether BitTorrent can make that come about with its Old World chat servicing remain to be seen — but if it can shelter your data from the NSA , then it has at least a fighting chance . [ BitTorrentviaCNET ]
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