Most probably a scam as they are simply asking to send coins to an address. The website is made by using free service strikingly
Not true, the devs behind Madesafe have been working on it for years and there are a lot of articles out there on them.
Seems like a scam, unless you've run their software?
Do you not venture outside the walls of BCT? It's not a scam. Whether or not it's a good investment is up to you to decide but if you are lumping this in the same category as EDGE and STACK, you are clueless.
Scam might be the inaccurate term, but this guy gave a talk on it in June *2008*. Seems what he's trying to do is very hard, but where is the explanation of all the progress that's happened almost 6 years ago? Reports also mention they've been working at it for 8 years. How have they been able to continue this long, and if they have and are getting close to a launch, they should not need other people's money. Satoshi already showed bitcoin's approach of launching worked, and this project could have done similarly: launch, let people install their software, and farm for their coins.
STL took 16 years to create, aids is still not cured, some things are hard. This took an underfunded 8 years. There are no founders shares, I do not hold 10% of the coins and never will. We all do what we must to get something done. In 2008 we had a proof of concept python system. This is a c++ implementation described here
http://maidsafe.net/network-platform-developers We have been funded by staff friends and family so far and worked night and day. We continued this long because this is right and a controlled society spied and snooped on, losing data, burning unnecessary electricity and causing death is something we feel we should fight hard to improve upon.
This is the route we have chosen and have struggled to get to. Now we are giving it to you and everyone else in a way we will not own it, and we do this again, because it's right. You may know ways to do it better and that's great. I did not though and this is my best effort. We (all of us) may at last be able to fund open source development and much more, surely this is worth fighting for? see
http://metaquestions.me/2014/04/12/safecoin-why-its-safe-and-what-it-means-for-us-all/ for some info on safecoin and what it may achive. For much of the time we have been in a room filled with whiteboards working this stuff out, I can show the results but it would take 8 years to explain all the discussions. Hope that helps a bit.