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Keet is closed-source and works on the "just trust that this binary we hand you works like we say it does!" model, whereas I can go and read simplex code on github and know exactly what it does.

It bears repeating - "Any program which does not make its source code available is potential spyware", i.e. there *is* no comparison.
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Nicolas ₿ ⚡️ 🇦🇷🧉🤙💜 2y ago

But I understand holepunch is open source already. You mean keet is not but the technology behind is right?

Any opinion about the tech behind assuming keets binary is honest

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shinohai 2y ago

I have read the holepunch stack, and even cobbled together a little NAT driller using it: https://github.com/Shinoa-Fores/hypernat. Holepunch is pretty nice all in all. Re: Keet's binary being "honest" - I can also release *parts* of the code powering something, but end-user has no guarantee there ain't a keylogger or I'm shoving metadata through a firehose back to myself. In this sense, keet is no better than zoom, skype, et all.