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Thank you for defending our work.

The media space is where society thinks; online videos need anonymous access.

Our attack model is indeed an adversary of moderate sophistication, also our architecture is design to evolve the coming years to support _offline_ sync. Really different from Tor.Sadly we did not use more disclaimers on our website, the one on anomymity.html is too little.

Our strong point is scalability, 340million Bittorrent users moving to Tor would utterly break things. With Tribler it possibly might not break, it evolved for 10 years with unbounded scalability as the key constraint and test requirement. Anyways, we will do no publicity in 2015. Only if we solve the incentive to relay problem before the Tor people do. They worked on designs for 3 years. We have deployed prototypes for 7 years.




The Tribler homepage boasts:

  Anonymity using our dedicated Tor-like network
  Search and download torrents without worries or censorship

  Anonymous downloads with strong encryption
The disclaimer is only if you click through to details on anonymity. To pretend that you just didn't put enough disclaimers on is disingenuous. Your site is actively encouraging users to use the software and not worry.

Can you comment on how y'all managed to ship such massive mistakes? And after 10 years? Even a quick read through "Practical Cryptography" would cover those errors.




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