“The app’s lack of mandatory registration, phone number verification, and centralized logging significantly impedes lawful interception and criminal investigations.”
India’s Home Ministry gave GitHub three hours to delete three repositories. The stated reason is that Bitchat works without phone numbers, servers, or logs, which is the entire point of the software. Protesters started using Bluetooth mesh to talk around the internet shutdowns the government imposed, and the government’s answer is to shut down the mesh. They also skipped Section 69A and used Section 79(3)(b) instead, which conveniently avoids the blocking procedure that has actual rules attached to it.