Bitchat Mesh App Keeps Running in India After a Cybercrime Notice, Spreading Peer to Peer

The open-source tool works without internet or central servers, and protesters used it during network restrictions before authorities targeted it.

Bitchat, an open-source messaging app that relays messages device to device over Bluetooth mesh rather than through the internet or central servers, kept functioning and spreading in India after authorities issued a cybercrime notice target…