As long as it's legal content. I'm sure once they get a dmca complaint about the tracker url on appspot, the app will be taken offline.Kudos to the developer on this. Very useful for companies who want to stand up a tracker easily for free.
You are completely misusing the term "security by obscurity". The term is used for security applications, not anonymity. It means that if you make a system that wants to restrict access, the security should be based upon cryptography and security concepts that prevent unwanted access instead of just counting on baddies not knowing where the side door is located.
Almost, but not quite. Opera's Unite operates on your own computer, while this works on Google's servers. This means a Unite-powered tracker can't work when your computer is offline, or when Opera isn't running on it; an App Engine-powered one will work all the time, as long as Google's servers are online. Unite is simpler to setup and it has its uses, but it's not as convenient as this, specially if you want your torrents to live with other seeds when you are offline.
Going simply off the description: "Thanks to Google?s free App Engine, everyone can setup a tracker of their own in a few minutes."Thanks to Opera Unite's free service that's built-in to Opera, everyone can setup a trakcer of their own in a few minutes.It doesn't matter where it runs, or if your computer is online, or if it's always online with Google and not with Unite, points is, Opera did it.
bwinebargerSep 10, 2009
As long as it's legal content. I'm sure once they get a dmca complaint about the tracker url on appspot, the app will be taken offline.Kudos to the developer on this. Very useful for companies who want to stand up a tracker easily for free.
happyscrappySep 11, 2009
You are completely misusing the term "security by obscurity". The term is used for security applications, not anonymity. It means that if you make a system that wants to restrict access, the security should be based upon cryptography and security concepts that prevent unwanted access instead of just counting on baddies not knowing where the side door is located.
rajputwarriorSep 11, 2009
this is going to get google in trouble...
higherlogicSep 11, 2009
// In the South Park "Simpson's did it" voice: "Opera did it!"<a class="user" href="http://code.google.com/p/unite-tracker/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/unite-tracker/</a><a class="user" href="http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/06/26/opera-unite-powered-bittorrent-tracker" rel="nofollow">http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/06/26/opera- ...</a>
stevemaxSep 11, 2009
Almost, but not quite. Opera's Unite operates on your own computer, while this works on Google's servers. This means a Unite-powered tracker can't work when your computer is offline, or when Opera isn't running on it; an App Engine-powered one will work all the time, as long as Google's servers are online. Unite is simpler to setup and it has its uses, but it's not as convenient as this, specially if you want your torrents to live with other seeds when you are offline.
cysseroSep 11, 2009
saranagati - I'm pretty sure you're saying the same thing he's saying, at least that's the way I read it.
higherlogicSep 14, 2009
Going simply off the description: "Thanks to Google?s free App Engine, everyone can setup a tracker of their own in a few minutes."Thanks to Opera Unite's free service that's built-in to Opera, everyone can setup a trakcer of their own in a few minutes.It doesn't matter where it runs, or if your computer is online, or if it's always online with Google and not with Unite, points is, Opera did it.
clschneiSep 23, 2009
Sounds like "torrentz.com" has been sold out by Google!
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