It's closed source (i'm not asking for FOSS, just being able to compile myself) and there is a business behind it.
It talks about protecting my privacy. Tell me how I should believe that.
Slightly related, one day after the Demonsaw release party with John McAfee: <a href="http://gawker.com/john-mcafee-arrested-while-armed-and-high-as-hell-on-xa-1722563654" rel="nofollow">http://gawker.com/john-mcafee-arrested-while-armed-and-high-...</a><p>> The shootout with the police was highly exaggerated and in fact no one was even hit by a bullet, let alone harmed by one. The Police knew me and I don’t believe their hearts were truly in the shootout, as it is not included in the official report. When I ran out of ammunition, I surrendered quietly and the officers and my self had a cigarette together and joked about my bad aim.
I would've been much more inclined to take this seriously had the testimonials not all been from John McAfee. After all he's been in the news for in the past few years, I'd treat a promotion by him as more harmful than helpful.
Just watched the demo video on <a href="https://www.demonsaw.com/documentation.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.demonsaw.com/documentation.php</a><p>This is not user friendly software. It's geek friendly certainly, but not user friendly.
The presentation software may be closed, the crypto is open.<p>There was even a workshop to build your own.<p><a href="https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-workshops-schedule.html#Eijah" rel="nofollow">https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-workshops-schedu...</a><p>Most of the posters were obviously not at Defcon based on the comments and general ignorance.
Eijah here. Just finished up defcon and traveling all day today. Be glad to do an AMA tomorrow to answer all your questions. Will upload the MIT open source Demoncrypt code to git tomorrow (sorry didn't sleep much this weekend). In the meantime you can contact me directly @demon_saw or eijah at demonsaw dot com.
Sorry it took a bit longer - still recovering from lack of sleep at Defcon. Demoncrypt code updated in git: <a href="https://github.com/eijah/demoncrypt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eijah/demoncrypt</a>
Ubuntu 14.04<p>noel@Aspire:~/Downloads/demonsaw_linux64$ ./demonsaw
./demonsaw: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-sync.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This reminds me a lot of eMule but without being able to see the IP address of the people you are sharing with.<p>I wonder if the servers you connect to are required to log the traffic though?
What problem does this solve exactly?<p>(As others have mentioned), it's closed source, so who is going to trust it with personal data? I'd much rather trust bittorrent sync than this but this point is really irrelevant. This isn't mom and pop software.<p>On the other hand, those who would like to use it seriously (pirates, hackers, those who value privacy) will laugh at it,
not only because it's closed source and thus all claims the author makes are unverifiable, but also because the architecture is crap.<p>So, summarizing, is there anything of substance besides hype and famewhoring here? I think not.