Yeah I'm not sure what their target market is either.
Proprietary software is fine for a lot of things, but anything concerning security and privacy absolutely requires the additional transparency and scrutiny offered by open-source.
I guess they are planning to market it to people who are worried about privacy but not tech-savvy enough to be able to understand these fundamental deficiencies of proprietary software, but that just seems really unsavory to me... But then again this is the same company that tried to sneak crypto-mining software as a value added offer to their installers so I can't really say I'm surprised.
These concerns were amplified by the difficulty of auditing a closed-source product. Their argument that hashes are one-time secrets and not permanent keys is difficult to validate without access to the source.
Do you like Bittorrent?
Do you like Chatting with others?
Then You'll Love Bittorrent Bleep!
EDIT: I didn't say it was a good mindset. I just think Bittorrent is trying to leverage it's name into new markets, while alienating it's core users and promoters.
Proprietary software is fine for a lot of things, but anything concerning security and privacy absolutely requires the additional transparency and scrutiny offered by open-source.
I guess they are planning to market it to people who are worried about privacy but not tech-savvy enough to be able to understand these fundamental deficiencies of proprietary software, but that just seems really unsavory to me... But then again this is the same company that tried to sneak crypto-mining software as a value added offer to their installers so I can't really say I'm surprised.