[iam]

The biggest problem I have with centralized servers in the first place is that I don't trust my data with them. If it was decentralized and open source, that's an app I could see myself using.

Closed source = no good for privacy.

[nroach]

I think that AeroFS only uses central servers to identify the IP addresses of participating hosts and negotiate a connection. AFAIK, the actual data flows directly peer to peer. So, even a malicious employee or government snoop would only know the IP of swarm participants. Presumably you'd still need to intercept and crack any encryption between nodes.

[iam]

That's not the problem, the app being closed source and being able to do whatever it wants with my data is the problem.

[rmc]

If the software is open source, it makes it much harder for a malicious company/employee to install a back door into the software.

It's not just the servers I have to trust, but the software. AeroFS gets rid of the servers, butt still need to trust the software.