Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent 436
An anonymous reader writes "I was at the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats yesterday, and there were people from the French Institute for Computer Science who have continuously spied on most BitTorrent users on the Internet for 100 days, from a single machine. They've also identified 70% of all content providers; yes, those guys that insert the new contents into BitTorrent. As a BitTorrent user, I was shocked that anyone with a box connected to the Internet can spy on what everyone is downloading on BitTorrent."
An Opportunity (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like a good way to earn a paycheck from the RIAA.
Redacted (Score:5, Funny)
[This post removed under the first rule of USENET.]
Hi, I'm new here (Score:5, Funny)
OMG (Score:4, Funny)
This must mean my IP address is being BROADCAST TO THE WORLD! And I thought I had punched the monkey to prevent this.
Re:Shocked. Shocked! (Score:1, Funny)
As a BitTorrent user, I was shocked that anyone with a box connected to the Internet can spy on what everyone is downloading on BitTorrent.
let me fix that for you...
As a BitTorrent user, I was shocked that anyone with a box connected to the Internet can spy on what my neighbour's unprotected wireless network is downloading on BitTorrent."
Well duhh! Of course you can find thm out! (Score:5, Funny)
It's P2P, you can't hide your IP from someone when they ask for a bit of movie file and your computer cheerfully sends it! It's the equivilant of the police walking down your street shouting "Are their any thieves here ?", and you sticking your head out the window to shout back "Yes Me me me! I'm a thief!!" ;-)
The best you can do is not respond to requests from IPs on a block list ... or steal Wifi from a poorly secured neighbour.
Re:An Opportunity (Score:5, Funny)
Judges already don't accept an IP simply being tied to a torrent.
What do they accept? My, err, friend wants to know!
Re:Redacted (Score:2, Funny)
But if I copy the redacted post and paste into my favorite editor, all is revealed!
Nice (Score:5, Funny)
Awesome. Meet any chicks?
Re:This is not an important security article. (Score:5, Funny)
I download something from Napster
And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
"getting my song back fucker"
- bash [bash.org]
Re:UNISEX? (Score:1, Funny)
Joey: No, I had sex a couple of days ago.
Rachel: No no, U-N-I-Sex...
Joey: Well...I can't say no to that...
Re:An Opportunity (Score:3, Funny)
If you also have a few random garbage generators installed on the system, that also makes it look more plausible.
Luckily, several of these are built into Windows itself!
Re:An Opportunity (Score:3, Funny)
they would tell you they were paying you $1 million while actually giving you $5. And that $5 would probably be copied.
ffs... Stolen! Not copied, STOLEN!
Alternatively, you can use "pirated", "robbed" or "pillaged".
Cheers,
RIAA