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Forensic Investigator Outlines BitTorrent Detection Technology
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In one of the many BitTorrent download cases brought by pornographic film makers, the plaintiff — faced with a motion to quash brought by a "John Doe" defendant — has filed its opposition papers. Interestingly, these included a declaration by its 'forensic investigator' (PDF), employed by a German company, IPP, Limited, in which he makes claims about what his technology detects, and about how BitTorrent works, and attaches, as an exhibit, a 'functional description' of his IPTracker software (PDF)."
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Hey! They have the technology now. They can write a GUI interface using visual basic to track your IPs!
I saw someone on Facebook complaining about the government tracking them online.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Coca-Cola made me sick. Let's see the recipe! Come on...
Which is why some p2p software, such as WASTE, has modes where it will always load links wether or not there is real traffic.
If the arms race goes on, we'll end up with a constantly saturated internet with only random connections sending apparent random data, leaving any actual signal indistinguishable and drowned out by the massive amounts of random noise.
It's called /.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.