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New P2P Torrent Site 'Play' Has No Single Point of Failure (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Play, a new peer-to-peer (P2P) site for downloading torrents, is practically impossible to shut down and promises to be the latest technology to revolutionise online downloads. The platform has appeared recently across ZeroNet, a Budapest-based open source site which is looking to offer a home to decentralised platforms which employ Bitcoin-crypto and BitTorrent technologies. As no central server exists, every additional user is a further point of connection inside the network, helping to avoid potential failures. As the first torrent site to appear on the network, Play can be accessed directly through a ZeroNet URL (only available with the tool installed). The site serves magnetic links sourced from RARBG, with which users can download films, series and other media files, in varying qualities. While ZeroNet itself is not an illegal platform, Play is identical to any other P2P download site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright.
Bitcoin wallets aren't cracked. Unless you're an idiot and chose a Bitcoin wallet that's easily guessable (like choosing a password of password). The default Bitcoin wallets are just fine and cryptographically secure.
The Tor network may have been "attacked". But short of having 50% of nodes under your control, you can't guarantee anything and the best attack is still a timing / correlation attack by monitoring both ends of a transaction (so presumably you don't NEED to know anything more than that anyway, if you've got that far) that pretty much NOTHING can stop.
Stop getting your tech news from overblown headlines and look into... the tech. If Bitcoin wallets were "cracked", there would be billions of dollars lost overnight. That's not what happened. A handful of people deliberately choosing to use the equivalent of "123456" for a Bitcoin wallet key may have lost their money. That's it. And people using certain monitored elements of Tor where they are giving away their own IP, or the service they connect to is giving away it's IP, allowing silly attacks due to poor configurations (nothing can stop the stupid) may have given away more information than they knew.
Otherwise, the sensible users of the systems using them what they were designed for have carried on completely unhindered. The systems both worked, as designed.