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Pirate Bay Browser Streaming Technology Is a Security and Privacy Nightmare (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Last week the Pirate Bay added support for streaming video torrents inside the browser in real-time. Kickass Torrents followed the next week. The technology they used is called Torrents Time. A security researcher has discovered that this technology which is a mix of client and server side code is actually a security and user privacy disaster. Attackers can carry out XSS attacks on TPB and KAT, the app runs on Mac as root, attackers can hijack downloads and force malicious code on the user's PC, and advertisers can collect info on any user that has Torrents Time installed.
You don't need to hear their name, the US government has now been tasked to do this shit on their behalf, they just write the text of the laws and treaties behind the scenes.
You don't think ICE policing copyright because they're under the control of DHS was an accident, do you?
Once the agency with the keys to the kingdom polices copyright, you can be more in the background.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
You don't need to hear their name, the US government has now been tasked to do this shit on their behalf, they just write the text of the laws and treaties behind the scenes.
This is, sadly, an extremely accurate description of how things work now. The corporations provide "advice" and "policy position consulting" in the form of fully-written bills and treaty amendments, and the law makers just staple them into the binder.
I'm not kidding in the least, this is literally how it woks these days.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...