On Sunday, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launched an open source chat app called Bitchat, promising to deliver “secure” and “private” messaging without a centralized infrastructure.

The app relies on Bluetooth and end-to-end encryption, unlike traditional messaging apps that rely on the internet. By being decentralized, Bitchat has potential for being a secure app in high-risk environments where the internet is monitored or inaccessible. According to Dorsey’s white paper detailing the app’s protocols and privacy mechanisms, Bitchat’s system design “prioritizes” security.

But the claims that the app is secure, however, are already facing scrutiny by security researchers, given that the app and its code have not been reviewed or tested for security issues at all — by Dorsey’s own admission.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So Dorsey "invents" a Briar clone that's untested, and calls it Bitch At?

Another win. Shave that stupid beard

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Of course it hasn't. He can just publish it and all his ball licker fans will just gobble it up.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    dorsey really didn't have a single original idea in years. first that guy pushed mastodon-but-worse, now hes trying to push briar-but-a-lot-worse

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What was his Mastodon clone? I feel like his name sounds familiar, but I'm blanking on the app/website name now.

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    Looking at the code, it reads like it was written by LLM: chatty commit messages, lack of spelling/capitalization errors, bullet points galore, shit-ton of "Fix X" commits that don't read like they're increasingly-frustrated, worthless comments randomly scattered like "i + 1 // add 1 to i" without any other comments on the page.

    No security review because none of the code has been reviewed and he doesn't know what's in it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No one likes writing tests! Give him a break!

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