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 :(

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...

Especially after Bittorrent started distributing malware with uTorrent updates.

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?

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?

SOURCE OR GTFO

fucking illuminati crusading against internet users !