This seems like another great way to get files I may have at home to work, and vice versa.
I can't wait to try it in anger, and I'm sure with time, the encryption will be improved, and therefore security will be improved.
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Home to Work file share
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Installs very quickly and easily. Two clicks and it's over I think!
The one thing I've noticed so far, is that I can't send an email to someone to invite them to sign up to oneswarm. I think if you did that it would have a viral effect, and the word would spread a lot quicker.
How does this stack up privacy wise to say Bittorrent?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Privacy-wise it should be much better. It seems it will reveal your IP to a DHT network though.
What bittorrent reveals that oneswarm will not do, if I understood it correctly:
1) bittorrent will reveal what you (probably) have, together with your IP, to a tracker (a server of which you have no control, like thepiratebay.org).
2) bittorrent will let anyone else with the same torrent connect to you and download from you (you are found through the tracker above) - there is no security involved once a peer knows your torrent and your ipAddons like Vuze DHT opens gaping holes in the anonymity, even though they would be great ideas otherwise. (That one lets everyone in the DHT network knows which torrents you have, or had, active, afaik. No filenames, but if anyone else have the torrent they can find you without a tracker. A good idea, but breaches anonymity a bundle.)
/Mirar
Posted 1 year ago #
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