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Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent

Posted by timothy on from the shrinking-wilderness dept.

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."

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  1. An Opportunity by MarkvW · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like a good way to earn a paycheck from the RIAA.

    1. Re:An Opportunity by feepness · · 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!

  2. Redacted by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    [This post removed under the first rule of USENET.]

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    https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
  3. Re:This is not an important security article. by 0100010001010011 · · 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