Bitchat has vanished from the Apple and Google app stores in India. The government ordered Apple to block access to the app under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. So what makes Bitchat different from WhatsApp and most other messaging apps? Almost all of them need the internet to work. Bitchat doesn't. It runs on Bluetooth Low Energy mesh networking, so phones that are close to each other can connect directly. A message can hop from one phone to the next, passing through several devices without touching the regular internet at all.You also don't need a phone number or any kind of account to use it. That design makes it genuinely useful when the internet goes down or gets shut off. But it also makes monitoring, interception and tracing who said what much harder, and that's likely what caught the government's attention. The Internet Freedom Foundation has pushed back on the move. Its argument is that Section 69A is meant for dealing with unlawful content, n...
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – 16.09.2026 Hackers ripped open Flock camera above a roadway made a near complete copy of the data and stored inside and shared the files with 404 Media and Wired. And the hackers say they're also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software in hopes that other people may copy them. The hackers were able to copy the camera storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. While much of the ALPR's most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles license plates and bicycles. 404 and wired analysed the camera's content and found the device processor is similar to those used in mid-range smartphones. According to the code, when something moves into view the camera takes a rapid series of photos. A typical passing vehicle gener...