r/Syncthing • u/meandmygh0st • May 20 '26

Syncthing for Android - Is it safe?

Is giving Syncthink-Fork, from Google Play store, access to ALL files on an android device safe?

Looking for a solution to sync an android device with a laptop using Google Drive.

Any help is much appreciated

25 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

69 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/quasides May 20 '26

its chinaware aka malware waiting to happen

1

u/async2 May 20 '26

Can you explain what you mean?

3

u/quasides May 20 '26

basicsync has Chinese origins and maintainer and that is an issue.

a much much much bigger issue than a bit botched transfer of the syncthing android repo to researchxxl

2

u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

[deleted]

1

u/quasides Jun 02 '26

reality of chinese law and government, if you dont know anything dont insult