Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file.
So basically what they do, is if your bittorrent client requests the files in encrypted format, they intercept that and instead request them unencrypted. They aren't decrypting the file, they are just asking for an unencrypted transmission of the file. If the file is in an encrypted zip file, then there is no way that they could see the actual files being transmitted.
I think he's referring to MD5 Collisions where you can make a completely different file that matches the same MD5 hash of another file.
But if all they are doing is comparing hash files, couldn't you just as easily change the resolution of the file, or insert a couple different bits around to change the file slightly, which ends up with a completely different hash?
Well aren't they all in it for the money? AT&T, Cisco and MS for the products and services that will be used for this, and NBC, Viacom and the music industry for the "stolen" revenues that this is trying to prevent. How is it not obvious this is all about money?
is there some horrible scarcity of fibre? is the network clogged?
It's not that it's scarce, but that it's expensive. And it's not just the fiber that is expensive, it's the additional routers with the higher bandwidth they also need to purchase to be able to receive and send the data.
And yes, the networks are clogged, if you ask them, with P2P traffic.
then take some of the money we fucking pay you, and lay some more fibre, assholes
It's not just that simple. You don't just string the fiber between telephone poles, you have to get rights to bury the fiber where necessary, and all that costs a lot more money than just the fiber itself.
Exactly. Isn't this why people get hired away from companies to go work for competitors? They want that person's knowledge of how their competition's products are built, so they can make a better product. It just seems that the guy they happened to hire did more than just bring his internal-working knowledge, and brought actual documentation.
a bank employee who could drain your entire account without a password
Except that they can only do that from a bank terminal, which logs every transaction they make, so it would easily be tracked. If the call center people can see your username and password they could easily give/sell that information to someone who would use it to steal from you.
The point is that if you need more than 16 gb of data storage you're either being really lazy or doing things that put you well outside the needs of a normal user
Or you're installing Windows Vista, which starts at about 5GB, or almost 1/3 of your disk space.
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Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file.
So basically what they do, is if your bittorrent client requests the files in encrypted format, they intercept that and instead request them unencrypted. They aren't decrypting the file, they are just asking for an unencrypted transmission of the file. If the file is in an encrypted zip file, then there is no way that they could see the actual files being transmitted.
I think he's referring to MD5 Collisions where you can make a completely different file that matches the same MD5 hash of another file.
But if all they are doing is comparing hash files, couldn't you just as easily change the resolution of the file, or insert a couple different bits around to change the file slightly, which ends up with a completely different hash?
Well aren't they all in it for the money? AT&T, Cisco and MS for the products and services that will be used for this, and NBC, Viacom and the music industry for the "stolen" revenues that this is trying to prevent. How is it not obvious this is all about money?
is there some horrible scarcity of fibre? is the network clogged?
It's not that it's scarce, but that it's expensive. And it's not just the fiber that is expensive, it's the additional routers with the higher bandwidth they also need to purchase to be able to receive and send the data.
And yes, the networks are clogged, if you ask them, with P2P traffic.
then take some of the money we fucking pay you, and lay some more fibre, assholes
It's not just that simple. You don't just string the fiber between telephone poles, you have to get rights to bury the fiber where necessary, and all that costs a lot more money than just the fiber itself.
Exactly. Isn't this why people get hired away from companies to go work for competitors? They want that person's knowledge of how their competition's products are built, so they can make a better product. It just seems that the guy they happened to hire did more than just bring his internal-working knowledge, and brought actual documentation.
The Kessel Run
No. 50cm ought to be enough for anybody.
a bank employee who could drain your entire account without a password
Except that they can only do that from a bank terminal, which logs every transaction they make, so it would easily be tracked. If the call center people can see your username and password they could easily give/sell that information to someone who would use it to steal from you.
The point is that if you need more than 16 gb of data storage you're either being really lazy or doing things that put you well outside the needs of a normal user
Or you're installing Windows Vista, which starts at about 5GB, or almost 1/3 of your disk space.