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That's interesting... so even the original 'master' client is treated equally? Other clients can decide to send/receive amongst themselves?

How do you deal with that?

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I basically post a warning that says "be aware that someone might attempt this." There's unfortunately nothing I can do about it with the way Syncthing is currently architected. We haven't had any malicious users yet but I'm sure we will eventually.

Fallback is just to provide a static .exe on the mirrors and leave the Resilio Sync node running alongside it.

There is no concept of a single "Master". The folder types are "Send & Receive" and "Send only" and the latter will not accept changes from any other client. I still agree it's not the best solution for a network you don't control and that might have a malicious actor in it.

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