The Deimos Project

What is The Deimos Project?

It's a project, consisting of a client (program) and a website, that allows you to gather statistics of your computer.

This project doesn't invade privacy, it only gathers the following statistics:

How much is downloaded & uploaded
How often there's a key pressed on the keyboard
How long the computer has been on and inactive
How often there has been clicked with the mouse or scrolled with the scrollwheel

These statistics don't say anything about your activities on the computer, it's also possible to mark your stats as private.
Everything of the project is open-source. No secrets here.

My firewall/anti-virus says Deimos is potentially dangerous?

The firewall/AV may say that because Deimos has access to the keystrokes/mouseclicks, the anti-virus may think that Deimos is a keylogger. However, Deimos counts the number of keystrokes, not the keystrokes themselves, no private intrusion in there.

Committing fails every time?

Please check your firewall, it's probably blocking it. Deimos uses the normal HTTP port (80), which is the same as browsing the Internet.
You will need to allow the program deimos-client-xxx.exe where xxx stands for the version

What is a commit?

When you commit, all snapshots (gathered statistics) are sent to the server. It doesn't matter when you do this because Deimos also keeps track of the time.

What is a snapshot?

A snapshot is all the gathered statistics by Deimos in 15 minutes (may change). To reduce the number of statistics that Deimos has to keep track of, only the totals of statistics are saved.

Why can't I commit, it's disabled?

To prevent the server overload of processing too many commits, it's only allowed to commit once per 5 minutes.

Which statistics does Deimos gather?

At the moment Deimos features the following statistics:

Keyboard
how many keystrokes, type speed
Mouse
number of clicks, how much moved or scrolled
Network
download & upload

Do I need to create a new computer when installing an other OS?

No, not needed. Feel free to keep using the same computer-profile, those are meant to make it easier for users.

Is it possible to keep Deimos running while gaming?

Yes, the client has been optimized for this job. It almost doesn't use any CPU-time, hard disk-IO or the network and the memory usage is low, which makes it ideal to keep it running while you are playing a game.