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.
Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
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Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#22Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#23There was even a workshop to build your own.
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-workshops-schedu...
Most of the posters were obviously not at Defcon based on the comments and general ignorance.
Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#24It'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.
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#25It'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.
According to the FAQ: >Is demonsaw going to be Open Source? >This was the question that I was most asked at Defcon. Demonsaw's foundation is built off of DemonCrypt, which is open-source and available for free on GitHub (MIT License, also developed by me). Demonsaw itself builds upon DemonCrypt's functionality and creates a graphical interface for users. I can't find that repository though (this is the closest thing…
Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#26What problem does this solve exactly? (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. 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 a…
Time is your friend. Just wait and watch. It's ticking, one second by one... but in a friendly way it does it's "ticking job" or... maybe better "tickling job" ? You choose, what fits best for your case. btw, seems that the open core CPP project is available through site's Download section... under title with big letters named "Crypto for Hackers: The Workshop" as is denoted here: https://github.com/eijah/demonsaw/is…
Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#27It'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.
Bittorrent Sync has the same problem, closed-sourced and only the businesses claims as to its security and 'truly private' sharing technology. Such a shame as I was really excited about Demonsaw, thought it was 'the one'.
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#28noel@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
Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#29Re: Demonsaw – Secure sharing platform
#30It'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.