Can you elaborate what the risk is?

I hope this makes it easier to do TLS sniffing and security research on Android apps. A lot of developers seem to rely on no one simply looking at how much information is exposed in the APIs apps use. Currently because it’s much more difficult to sniff Android apps, a lot of privacy/security issues are not raised.

Just tell her that you told them your wife didn’t like the name so they changed it.

The use case sounds exactly like git-annex.

As a bonus you get a system that tracks how many copies of files and where you have them.