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Broadband Service as P2P Distro Experiment

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-learn-something-new-everyday dept.

Not another doctor wrote to mention a PC Doctor article about the Sky by Broadband service. In addition to providing access to the internet, the service also helpfully downloads and installs the Kontiki P2P service. From the article: "What this really means is that Sky in all their advertising are making out that you are downloading content directly from them rather than other users. Also, the P2P link continues to run in the background after you've shut down the main application, eating up bandwidth by allowing others to download the files from your PC. Kontiki also collects and sends back to Sky a lot of information about your PC. There is no mention as to how this data is protected from unauthorized access, however, initial examination with Ethereal seems to show that all data is at least encrypted during transmission."

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  1. Enigma cracking client opens a backdoor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Enigma cracking client posted earlier opens a backdoor on Windows systems. Look for an "enigma-client" user with the password "nominal". Zonk won't edit the original story or post a new one so please mod this up so it gets noticed by someone.

  2. If it's too good to be true... by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you've decided to illegally download movies...

    If you play with fire, you're bound to get burnt. Whether it's Sky's Kontiki client or some other P2P app, you're always running the risk of sucking up bandwidth with background services. And so what if you are? The maximum throughput is only slightly decreased and you get a bunch of extra features. Isn't that worth the tradeoff? Did you really think you could get something for nothing?

    1. Re:If it's too good to be true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Shouldn't matter, because "no copy-protection scheme is foolproof"* and "information wants to be free,"** not to mention "the internet changes everything"*** and "economics as we know it is obsolete."**** Did I get that right, you foul-smelling hippie Slashtard?

      * Hint: Adequate doesn't imply foolproof.
      ** No, it doesn't.
      *** No, it didn't.
      **** You're fucking retarded--you and your ilk--and you'll find your Stallmanesque, Dorito-studded beard isn't quite as attractive to ladies in real life as you'd think to judge by the babe parade on your flickering CRT, once you finally get around to sponging that crusty exoskeleton of what used to be semen off your flesh and leaving your basement shrine to Napoleon Dynamite, which you probably misspell as "Napolean." Any day now.

    2. Re:If it's too good to be true... by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Troll

      ***** Just because you say it, doesn't make it true.

      --
      My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
    3. Re:If it's too good to be true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Exactly correct. Though Slashtards may find some measure of redemption in their sad, tiny lives by whiling the hours 'til their coronaries insisting, as though their lives depended on it, that intellectual property is meaningless as a concept, they nevertheless, as you point out, have yet failed to precipitate ideological revolution. The most massive paradigm shifts they may ever hope to experience are their twice-daily trips to the toilet and back--if they can even manage that much.

  3. Fishman OTIII by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged". His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants. When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development. One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time. In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful. One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body. One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small. Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck.