physorg.com — Researchers Examine P2P Networks; The same technology that allows easy sharing of music, movies and other content across a network also allows government and media companies easy access to who is illegally downloading that content. But with the right software the detection rate drops down to only 1 percent. The article even mentions Digg!
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cisengineerSep 27, 2007
Thanks for your article giving me a heads up on PeerGuardian software. Recommended!
Closed AccountSep 28, 2007
Allowing unencrypted traffic will *NOT* make you any safer - The encryption simply encrypts packet headers, making it harder for ISP's to throttle bittorrent traffic. Your IP still gets sent to the trackers, every client that supports encryption can decrypt it, and if your ISP really cared, they could easily decrypt the traffic if they so desired.Encryption was probably a bad choice of words for that feature, encryption implies the data requires a password or something to be read. Obfuscation would be a better term, it makes the packet headers harder to detect, and thats it..That aside, I'm not too sure about DHT or peer exchange. How does disabling them improve security (And does it really?). It seems like if your reporting your IP to the tracker (which you have to do), the benefit of disabling DHT just got nullified..
Closed AccountSep 28, 2007
The iPhantom thing is basically a hardware VPN-converter. It takes all internet traffic, and redirects it though their servers. You can do the same thing in software (Connect to VPN options in your OS)www.relakks.com and www.secureix.com for example, achive the same, and don't require extra hardware.
stalksOct 2, 2007
Pirates distribute music because they *want* to. You can't ask people to do work for free, as soon as it is labelled "work", people are not interested.
datagramOct 4, 2007
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