Nine months after revealing plans to develop a decentralized and encrypted chat application, BitTorrent opened public testing for Windows, Mac and Android versions of the program. Called Bleep, the ...

Back in the day, IIRC, Crashplan offered free "peer" backup; you exchange USB hard drives with a buddy, Crashplan backed up to the remote USB drive over the Internet, with encryption. This meant very ...

Have you ever pondered how a simple link travels from your device to someone who’s just a table’s width away? As soon as you hit 'send,' your message starts its race through high-capacity data ...

Start-up Seclarity last week unveiled a security-based network interface card called SiNic that customers can use for peer-to-peer encryption and firewall protection for desktops and servers. Start-up ...

File sharing has become a core part of modern digital work, allowing users to send large files instantly with strong security protections. With advances in file transfer apps, users now benefit from ...

Jack Dorsey, the co‑founder of Twitter and current head of Block, has introduced Bitchat, a peer‑to‑peer encrypted messaging tool that operates entirely without internet or cellular networks, relying ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

An end-to-end strategy must factor in all the ways the data can be input and output, as well as how it’s stored Here’s a sobering prediction: One-third of all adults in the United States will have ...