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New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files

Posted by timothy on from the checks-for-the-evil-bit dept.

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.

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  1. Developed by the Air Force by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No surprise there. Air Force calls itself the "Ivy League" of armed forces, but they have their own methods of treating their own like shit. A guy I know had his computer yanked by OSI because he was suspected of possessing Cee Pee, but nothing ever came of it and the bastards didn't even return his computer.

    The Gestapo-like OSI recruit airmen with special skills or college credit out of techschool to become professional rats. See that guy in your dorm party pretending to drink the same beer all night? That's the one. A guy in my unit walked free from drug use punishment because the OSI coerced an interrogation of out him without reading him his rights.

    For those of you in the Air Force, don't believe the OSI hype. All they do is bust airmen for underage drinking and minor drug offenses when they're not sitting on Limewire all day looking for Cee Pee. Should they pull you in for questioning, simply be as vague as possible or say nothing at all. They pulled me in(just like in the movies - Mutt and Jeff interrogation with one-way mirror) to question me about others' drug use, but luckilly I was drunk at the time the alleged use occurred so I didn't remember ;)