Pirate Bay Browser Streaming Technology Is a Security and Privacy Nightmare (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on Friday February 12, 2016 @03:05AM from the tradeoffs-abound dept.

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.

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Laugh by koan · 2016-02-12 03:35 · Score: 2, Interesting

Does anyone consider the fact these sites have been taken down (in some cases more than once) and does anyone consider who may be actually running these sites?

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Re:Rome was not build in one day by wonkey_monkey · 2016-02-12 04:10 · Score: 3, Interesting

Or just have some patience. Bloody kids.
When I were a lad, it took days to download a 700mb Xvid DVD rip at 640x360 resolution. And we felt blessed.
A couple of hours to download a 1080p MKV with 5.1 sound? Luxury!

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