Jack Dorsey

The reported order treats local Bluetooth messaging as a security risk because it can work when internet access is restricted. GitHub had not removed the Bitchat repository when HN discussed the report.

That gap became the thread’s central point: a takedown demand can publicise a tool and cannot erase copies, forks, or alternative hosting. Commenters also connected the case to wider pressure on sideloading and decentralised distribution.

Each agent in Buzz gets its own signed key on a self-hosted Nostr relay, not a shared bot token. Block says a leaked key can be revoked without touching the human who authorized it.

An engineer at Slack, disclosing that affiliation upfront in the thread, said that's the easy half of the problem: stopping one person's agent from leaking private data into a channel it wasn't meant to see is still unsolved.