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New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files
QuietR10t writes "A new technique has been developed for detecting and tracking illegal content transferred using the BitTorrent file-trading protocol. According to its creators, the approach can monitor networks without interrupting the flow of data and provides investigators with hard evidence of illicit file transfers. 'Our system differs in that it is completely passive, meaning that it does not change any information entering or leaving a network,' says Schrader." I wonder if it can specifically identify legal content, too.
So, if for instance, Verizon or AT&T start using this tool, does that mean they lose common carrier status?
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
I'm assuming this has no chance of defeating encrypted connections?
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Till they come up with a good way to figure out whats going across the network encrypted, they will just be wasting their time.
I came, I conquered, I coredumped
So, you're telling me that, given a set of hashes corresponding to "Prohibited content" and access to all the packets moving across a network, you can detect prohibited content? Why, it's a miracle of science!
Seriously, this is news? It has been possible, with the complicity of the router or physical access to the wire, to unobtrusively and undetectably tap a network since forever. That isn't news. And being able to identifiy files whose hashes you have ahead of time? Also not news, especially since bittorrent uses hashes extensively itself, and was never designed for subtlety or concealment.
I realize that Technology Review lost interest in technology years ago, and now spends most of its time fellating venture capitalists; but this is pathetic.
I believe that falls under "Tyrannical government? Revolution."
What is the airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
Or, everybody will become a criminal.
Logic Fail. If everyone becomes a criminal, then it is still true that the only people who are breathing will be criminals.
Two points.
One: the mirror port (aka span port) on your switch does not buffer the traffic, and will drop packets in any spike. That's true even for expensive Cisco switches. To get all traffic, you need a network tap on a line.
Two: getting the traffic isn't hard. It's basic sniffing. Analysing the traffic in realtime is what matters.
This is nothing new and it's just meaningless marketing drivel. It's impossible to tell that *any* network is being monitored. It's not like you could buy an electronic device in a spy shop that can detect network monitoring. Throttling and "traffic management" are different since that is changing the network traffic.
There is only one type of network that can prevent a 3rd party from being able to copy the network traffic. Quantum communications provides that type of infrastructure by making it *impossible* to read the traffic without destroying it.
It's not like network monitoring is really a problem anyways. If you want privacy then just use encryption.
Ohhh, you mean it's useless right? Everyone involved knows that a large amount of torrent traffic is infringing on various copyrights. The goal of the ISPs is to protect their profit margins. They sell unlimited but expect limited. They don't care whether traffic is illicit or not, just that it does not interfere with their business models. The MAFIAA is interested in the contents of the traffic and could care less about network congestion and bandwidth issues. Until the ISPs actually start caring about content, the goals of these two groups are not the same.
Enter Net Neutrality. Only when it is in the financial interests of ISPs to care about content will they start to listen to the MAFIAA. Obviously they could not reach an agreement since the MAFIAA is going to the whores in various legislatures to trade our freedoms for the protection of a few group's business models.
Note, that I don't support piracy on principle. However, I will not give up my rights to privacy and anonymity to protect someone else's copyrights either.
That sounds really easy doesn't? Of course there are only a few dozen really popular public trackers out there they can scrape the thousands and thousands of new torrents each day to update their tables. Don't forget about all the private trackers either that add a file or two that changes the hash to be different from the public torrents containing some of the same files.
Yep. This should be really easy. I can't possibly see how this task could not be reasonably accomplished with just a few salaried personnel on daily basis.
I laughed so hard I almost peed myself at this point. Legal viewpoints change more frequently than the weather. If there is enough pressure from private interests in the U.S and abroad I don't think a little thing like privacy will stop them.
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>cannot legally be used in the U.S. or Europe
when has that ever stopped anybody?
Yes but by splitting to two pages he made sure he "served" the ads twice, so gets paid for twice as many "pageviews..."
Actually, most ad services I've seen don't give you an impression for the same visitor on the same ad on different pages if they are within a certain window of viewing. A lot of ad providers don't even pay for impressions anymore since advertisers are finding less value in internet ad impressions as time goes on. Sometimes you will find a startup ad provider that pays per thousand impressions, but as they go on that value decreases towards zero. Places like Google AdSense only give you the "estimated cash per thousand" which at this point just tells you the same thing as your click thru rating since nearly all revenue is generated on clicks. Click or go home.
Can someone please explain to me how they plan to view the files of encrypted traffic without it being illegal?
...or, you know, just be plain illegal due to attempting to access people's personal files.
One would think that if they happen to decrypt anything with copyright protection that it would then violate the DCMA, as per various ridiculous recent rulings of the sort.
DNA -- National Dyslexic Association
You are a retard.