[geofft]

> If they want in, they'll get in, and there's nothing* you can do about it.

Yeah, but you don't have to make it _easy_ for them, like using closed-source software that's capitalizing on the name recognition of "BitTorrent" to pretend to be open.

(I expect that even if you lived in McLean, Virginia and never locked your doors, if you were writing open-source software, nobody would make you put a backdoor in. The intelligence agencies have shown a great bias towards doing things that people won't notice.)

Also, even assuming you can't keep the NSA and FBI out if they really care (which I somewhat agree with), it's definitely worth it to keep everyone else out. Like BitTorrent the company, or anyone MITMing any of those HTTP URLs.