Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...

BitTorrent today updated two products: its file synchronization tool Sync and its encrypted P2P chat app Bleep. The former’s version 2.0 is now in private alpha while the latter has received true ...

File-sharing company BitTorrent is at work on a chat product that makes use of a number of security techniques that effectively render it invisible to anyone trying to eavesdrop on your conversations.

BitTorrent, the company, continues its push to prove that the BitTorrent, the protocol , isn’t just for online piracy anymore. The company’s latest product tease is a new instant messaging service ...

Does the solution to secure instant messaging from prying eyes lie in how torrents work? BitTorrent thinks it might, and is testing out a server-free messaging system. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt ...

BitTorrent, Inc. is developing a serverless instant messaging system that relies on public key encryption to protect the privacy of communications, identifying users not with traditional usernames but ...

In the wake of contractor Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations, the drive to create more secure communications tools has taken on an extra urgency. Although BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer filesharing outfit ...

The fallout from the NSA spying scandal has left many people unsure about what they should and shouldn’t share across the tubes. But now BitTorrent has an answer: an instant-message chat client that ...

BitTorrent has kind of a bad reputation, even if they don’t deserve it. They invented the BitTorrent protocol, which can be used for downloading movies and music, and has wreaked havoc on every ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. With revelations of government surveillance continuing to roll in, BitTorrent decided late last ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. BitTorrent wants to build a secure chat service that will only ever let a message ...

BitTorrent has just announced its latest project: A private chat platform that runs on secure, distributed computers. BitTorrent Chat is a “pre-Alpha experiment in server-less messaging” from the ...