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Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd
pinguin-geek writes "Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new 'guilt-by-association' threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper to accurately classify groups of users with similar download behavior. While many have pointed out that the data exchanged over these connections can reveal personal information about users, the researchers shows that only the patterns of connections — not the data itself — is sufficient to create a powerful threat to user privacy. To thwart this threat, they have released SwarmScreen, a publicly available, open source software that restores privacy by masking a user's real download activity in such a manner as to disrupt classification."
Now my downloading of Linux ISO's and pre-release movies is going to be mingled with horse porn. Just what I always wanted.
Utorrent, which I dropped because of how bloated it is. Why GUI? rtorrent is the way to go.
Yeah, it's 4,500K memory footprint is ridiculous.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
mmmm...forbidden donut
...alright...why terminal? Raw socket is the way to go!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Unless you can interface directly with the network media using a battery and a metal pin, STFU.
Your head a splode
I can get WiFi on the fillings in my teeth.
Oh, hang on a sec, downloading an attachment!
"But this one goes to 11!"
Exactly. What is the point of having your CPU idle? Wouldn't the ideal be to use as much resources as you can all the time? I have never understood why people build these massive computing machines and then never do any serious computing.
"But this one goes to 11!"