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 ...

Last fall, BitTorrent (the company) announced and experimental plan to build a secure chat system using the protocol that’s most famous for enabling file sharing. Today, we’re getting our first look ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mobile messaging app space is crowded, to say the least. But developers are still trying to figure out how best to make a communication app that is both accessible to the mainstream and truly ...

Anyone looking forward to using BitTorrent’s secure web browser codenamed Project Malestrom as a final release will be pleased to learn that is has taken another step closer. Over the weekend ...

BitTorrent is good for more than downloading copyrighted content--it's a technology that can be used to distribute game patches, share files, and now to send secure messages. BotTorrent's new Bleep ...

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 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 ...

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 ...