[sschueller]

Without source it just can't be trusted.

[Shish2k]

Heck, even with just an open protocol, I'd trust the threat of competition to keep bittorrent inc behaving; using their client most of the time and an open source one for really paranoid use-cases. As it is now, they get nothing, and I wait for clearskies or something to become usable instead :(

[caligo]

I completely agree. Any potential benefits are far outweighed by the project not being open sourced.

"Our goal is to build a sharing tool that lets you move big files, and big ideas, freely. Without surveillance." [1]

Unfortunately without proof this sort of marketing sounds like "give us all of your data, we won't look, we promise."

... I may be a little cynical because I like the idea of decentralized sync.

[1] http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/11/05/introducing-bittorrent...

[pkinsky]

Especially after Bittorrent started distributing malware with uTorrent updates.

[schabernakk]

thanks for mentioning that. never knew that uTorrent is actually developed by Bittorrent Inc. That makes it indeed very hard to trust the BT Sync service

[huhtenberg]

uTorrent was one of the best (if not the best) engineered Windows programs. It was small, fast and really really well thought out. Just beautiful. I would be so damn proud if it were my creation :)

Then BitTorrent came along and bought it. On one hand I'm really happy for the dev, but on the other hand it was the start of a steady decline of both the quality and the ethics. BT does some really interesting stuff, but I really wish they wouldn't pee on their own parade with all those uT ads and bundling.

[yapcguy]

Has there been any kind of official response from Bittorrent about this?

Are they planning on open sourcing the code at a later date or have they simply kept quiet this whole time, hoping the issue will go away?

[TheSisb2]

They yesterday claimed they would make it public once it was stable. http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/24050-i-apologize-ahead-of...

[foobarqux]

I doubt it. Bram saw Bittorrent get hugely successful but didn't see corresponding financial returns. He probably attributes that to being open source and trying to avoid it happening again.

[gcv]

Does anyone know if BitTorrent uses its servers to facilitate finding the endpoints of the shared secrets? Or is it done using DHT hackery, with no centralized server involvement?

[rich90usa]

See http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/technology under "Peer Discovery"

[HN_Master_Race]

SOURCE OR GTFO

[jokoon]

fucking illuminati crusading against internet users !