Syncthing is a open source synchronization application. It's a replacement for the closed source Bittorrent Sync (BTS). If you are currently using BTS, I recommend switching because 1) it's closed sourced, and 2) owned by an American company, and thus 3) likely to implement NSA-style backdoors. This is made more likely by the fact that newer versions default to using a website to share the private key needed to set up a shared folder. Very suspicious. It makes it very easy to snoop the private key. If you must use it, use the old
Syncthing: some notes and recommendations
Syncthing: some notes and recommendations
Syncthing: some notes and recommendations
Syncthing is a open source synchronization application. It's a replacement for the closed source Bittorrent Sync (BTS). If you are currently using BTS, I recommend switching because 1) it's closed sourced, and 2) owned by an American company, and thus 3) likely to implement NSA-style backdoors. This is made more likely by the fact that newer versions default to using a website to share the private key needed to set up a shared folder. Very suspicious. It makes it very easy to snoop the private key. If you must use it, use the old