This only adds fuel to the claims of bitchat being a CIA tool for regime change Luckily the activists and journalists know the app is unsafe and leaks their data. Older mesh networking apps that have a proven track record of being safe for activists and journalists exist. Apps without CIA back doors to all your data.

Yes. Time for Bitchat! It may be too late to help much in Iran, as presumably it would need a lot of adoption there in order to be usable when the state fully switches off the internet In any case, we need more people everywhere to install it It's starting to become urgent