https://hackingpassion.com/tags/bluetooth-mesh/Recent content in Bluetooth Mesh on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenSun, 26 Jul 2026 14:31:59 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/bitchat-bluetooth-mesh-messaging/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:31:59 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/bitchat-bluetooth-mesh-messaging/<p>There is a messaging app with more than <strong>25,000 stars on GitHub</strong> that works with no internet. Your phone talks straight to other phones over <strong>Bluetooth</strong>, and your message hops from one phone to the next until it reaches someone across a crowd. 🧐</p> <p>It&rsquo;s called <strong>Bitchat</strong>, and on July 23 a government tried to erase it. India&rsquo;s Cybercrime Coordination Centre ordered GitHub to take it down: the app, the source code, and the Android builds, all within three hours. Protests had filled the streets in Delhi, the authorities had cut the mobile internet to slow the crowd, and people switched to Bluetooth apps to keep organizing. Bitchat was one of them. The government&rsquo;s complaint was that it leaves nothing behind to trace. You don&rsquo;t register, you hand over no phone number, and nothing you send passes through a server that could keep a record. Jack Dorsey started the project, and he said the government didn&rsquo;t like the technology and wanted it gone.</p>