I got this impression too. After hearing about it (again) on HN I joined #tribler a few days ago and asked a few questions about some of their crypto choices.

whirm (who seems like a really nice guy) was pretty upfront that he wasn't a cryptographer.

The tribler webpage mentions a reputation system of sorts so I asked whirm how tribler deals with sybil attacks and his response was "I think it was dimitra who was working on that kind of stuff". I thought that was an unusual response.

I hope they take this feedback as an opportunity to redesign their system from scratch. Building a censorship free publishing system is a noble pursuit.