Hi
I believe in and prefer opensource software for different reasons, but sometimes closed source offers better piece of software.
Especially concerning P2P I would rather to use open source software but I really like TIXATI.

How could I check or where can I refer to to find out in which way TIXATI respect the privacy of user's data (IP, content, no spying)?
I know tixati offers encryption but my question is how an user can test how TIXATI handle the data and information.

Thank you.

E.

You can test that by opening any sockets control software, and log the whole IP-to-IP, later verify one by one if they are legit or IP's from Micosoft or Tixati obscure servers; the easiest method scientifically is making 3, 5 virtualboxes machines and making your own tracker, you must use different public IPs in all machines, to simulate the public seed so any spy algorithm will be caught if sending spy data; seeding environment, so you will know about all the IPs.
In resume: I do not have any symptoms of such an spyware, and I do checked the whole perfmon.exe /res sometimes.

Testing a program in virtual machine won't do any good. The tested program can detect that it has been started in virtual machine and act different. Use a pc and capture the traffic with another computer.

Just adding that a great deal of malware/viruses in the wild nowdays refuse to run in a virtual machine, in the hopes you think it's not infected and eventually run the payload on a non-virtual machine. Using any VM for software security testing is pointless for these reasons.