Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.

What has Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (now X) been up to lately? Among other things, creating experimental little projects, like a new private messenger that doesn’t need the internet to function.

One security expert, Alex Radocea, tested Bitchat and discovered that someone could pretend to be someone else on the app. This is because Bitchat's system for verifying identity,