Whenever an Internet user searched the Web, attached a file to an e-mail or examined a menu of files using file-sharing software on a peer-to-peer network, the software would compare the hash values of those files against the file registry. It wouldn't be "reading" the content of the files -- it couldn't tell a love note from a recipe -- but it would determine whether a file is digitally identical to one on the child-porn list.
Imagine browsing for Blu-ray dumps on one of these monitored p2p-networks, and for each file in the search result, GFR would download it from the other user, read it, and discard, just to compute a hash value.
Afaik., making a hash of a file involves reading the data. It seems that the author of the article (or CopyRouter itself) differentiates between opening and reading.
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Imagine browsing for Blu-ray dumps on one of these monitored p2p-networks, and for each file in the search result, GFR would download it from the other user, read it, and discard, just to compute a hash value. Afaik., making a hash of a file involves reading the data. It seems that the author of the article (or CopyRouter itself) differentiates between opening and reading.
Wouldn't the receiving bitorrent client notice that the received data is not encrypted (or fail to decrypt it, since it's not)?
It will be just like Leningrad
This is not warcraft in space!