theironknuckle

I fully support what you're doing here, but remind me what's to stop someone from sharing your secret with the pedophiles and hitmen? Is a user able to see who is following them?

The only thing I'm looking for is the ability to limit the capacity of a folder. Being able to set a hard limit on the size of a synced folder would allow me to easily share a folder with random people on the internet and have confidence that they aren't going to DDOS me by spamming the folder until my harddrive has filled up.

Holy crap. This seems to have started something: There are distributed chat clients, social networks, and email systems which are based on bitttorrent sync popping up all over the place! I sincerely wish that ALL of these projects find success and widespread adoption. The whole situation has a very nerdy vibe right now, which is unfortunate because these innovations could easily lead to an internet revolution if it was made more accesible to the average joe. This would bring relevance back to the desktop PC which is apparently dying in the wake of smartphones if techblogs and nerd magazines are to be believed. Which is basically because the big boys of the internet are doing all the heavy lifting in the background on their extensive server farms, which means all you really need is a smart phone. Instead of having server farms running the show, it would be up to each individual to host their webapps, as well as store and provide their data. The line between web applications and native applications could become very fine indeed. At the point where everyone hosts their own email, facebook account+data and IM infrastructure, privacy, PRISM and NSA scandals shouln't be an issue at all. If the government wants to raid someone's private data, they'll have to do it the traditional way: by obtaining a warrant, storming the fort and seizing the hardware on which it's stored. The difference this time is that the data is stored where it should be: in the hands of the user it pertains to. There's no legislative reform necessary, all we've got to do is get people to adopt the technology. Thank you all so much for what you're doing here. Someone mentioned a few pages back that they want to send some beer tokens your way. If someone wants to start up a vodka and whisky fund for you all I'll happily donate.

I think I understand the fundamentals of P2P, but I'm stumped by how a P2P solution can link up me and my family when we are geographically separate (as well as being on totally different networks). For torrents, I understand that there are trackers which can help create links between peers who want to download the same file. For magnet links my understanding is that no tracker is involved, but as long as there are enough peers looking for the same content they will eventually bump into each other and create that speedy mesh network. I'm under the impression that btsync works on the same principle, which makes me wonder how it manages to make that connection when there are only two peers and they are quite separated - not on the same LAN. How do those peers manage to find each other in the first place without some sort of tracker? Can someone fill the gap in my knowledge? Thanks

I control the ubuntu box by remote desktop and ssh. IP addresses are static on both ends of the crossover cable. It's not using DHCP. Will give the Pre-defined hosts setting a go

I've got two windows 7 laptops and an ubuntu 12.10 box. The ubuntu box is directly connected via crossover cable to one of the laptops, it has no wireless access. The ubuntu box reports running version 1.1.70 ( up to date ). The windows laptops report running version 1.1.74 I've tried to share my music folder between the laptop and ubuntubox that have a direct connection, but nothing happens. The ubuntu box reports /Backup/My Music 0 B in 0 files while the windows laptop reports 85.8 GB in 13094 files. After this I tried to make a test folder on both my laptops and the ubuntu box. Inside the ubuntu version I created a text file, 26 Bytes. For the version of the folder which is on the laptop, I created a different textfile, 8 bytes. On the third laptop I created the test folder with nothing in it at all. I've assigned the correct secret to all of the folders, so I would expect the two text files to show up on all the computers in the right folders. Unfortunately not. I also note that my university (where I live) blocks torrents/whatever protocol torrents run on. Assuming the same protocol is being used by this syncing app, and also assuming that the torrent block is occuring at the level of the router which they are both connecting to, this might be what is preventing the two laptops from syncing. HOWEVER that doesn't explain why the ubuntu box can't sync with my laptop as it is a direct point to point connection. What am I missing?