PeterVerhees Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Dear Bittorrent,After digging around in some wireshark logs of my btsync setup I found that btsync calls home to a server named: www.usyncapp.com.I believe this is to gather statistics on which version is running where on what platform and so on. Especially important during the testing period I guess. Is the software still going to be doing this when it is final? And what info are you saving for how long and what purposes?/nosyEducated Guess:Architecture,Number of FilesNumer of shared foldersA unique IDWhat options are used.This is the URI I found. (some info scambled)http://www.usyncapp.com/cfu.php?arch=x86_64&cl=BitTorrent%20Sync&direct=432129821&files=3567&folders=9&id=htRWdGwwER-daEraerE&pl=linux&relay=0&size=345675432&v=221122 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kos13 Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Sync uses this call to check if there is new build available. It also contains some anonymized statistics, so we could better understand how Sync performs and used in the field. This is the only information we collect and use, so we intentionally left it open. This way you could easily verify, that we don't have any access to any private information, just general statistics about app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterVerhees Posted April 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Thank you Kos, I expected as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefsucker Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 It would be great if you could elaborate more on security, what, why and when is transferred where, and give some more technological insights on the technology page. I think that P2P is one of your main selling points as it doesn’t required to store sensitive files on third-party servers and it’s worth to emphasize it even more and make everything as transparent as possible (you’re already doing a great job with this during the preview phase). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PainFreePc Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 Add This To Your "hosts" File and BTSync Can't Call Home"127.0.0.1 t.usyncapp.com""127.0.0.1 usyncapp.com""127.0.0.1 www.usyncapp.com" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anh Huynh Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) It also connects to config.usyncapp.com , for what?stdout.log:Requesting folder config from config.usyncapp.comstdout.log.1:Requesting folder config from config.usyncapp.comstdout.log.1:Requesting folder config from config.usyncapp.com Edited August 24, 2014 by icymatter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 It also connects to config.usyncapp.com , for what? To retrieve the list of tracker/relay servers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anh Huynh Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 $ curl -L http://config.usyncapp.com/sync.conf { "trackers" : [ {"addr" : "54.225.100.8:3000"}, {"addr" : "54.225.196.38:3000"}, {"addr" : "54.225.92.50:3000"} ], "relays" : [ {"addr" : "67.215.231.242:3000"}, {"addr" : "67.215.229.106:3000"} ], "mobile_push_proxies" : [ {"addr" : "54.235.182.157:3000"} ]} To retrieve the list of tracker/relay servers Thanks for your information I love to seee this open information, so that I can config my firewall correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anh Huynh Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 btsync uses the same domain http://config.usyncapp.com/ for both things (1) get a list of tracker/relays (2) report some user's information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anh Huynh Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 List of domains may be accessed by btsync $ strings /home/btsync/bin/btsync \ | grep -E '[^ ]{3,}\.com' \ | sed -e 's#.*://##g' \ -e 's#\.com.*#.com#g' \ | sort -u apps.bittorrent.com bench.utorrent.com config.usyncapp.com download.utorrent.com gui.com link.getsync.com raptor.utorrent.com remote.utorrent.com router.bittorrent.com router.utorrent.com search.conduit.com syncdev.bittorrent.com sync-help.bittorrent.com tracker.openbittorrent.com tracker.publicbt.com update.utorrent.com www.bittorrent.com www.usyncapp.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitwise Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 Sync uses this call to check if there is new build available. It also contains some anonymized statistics, so we could better understand how Sync performs and used in the field.This is the only information we collect and use, so we intentionally left it open. This way you could easily verify, that we don't have any access to any private information, just general statistics about app. If a user has 'Always check for updates to this version' disabled, does this tranfer of data still occur? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 @BitwiseNo, Sync should not use this call if check for updates is disabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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