Comments on: Federated BitTorrent Technology

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:19:29 +0000

“…itâs better to be devilâs advocate/paranoid…”

By: Cynix

Cynix — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:14:05 +0000

If you think lmgtfy.com is good, then you’ll love http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

I know my post was negative, but when it comes to a war like the RIAA scumbags are waging, it’s better to be devil’s advocate/paranoid and try to think of as many vulnerabilites as possible and try to protect against them, however unlikely those threats might seem.

I hope this technology can help guard us against the enemy.

And thanks for the links.

By: surfer

surfer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:12:40 +0000

everyones a critic…

http://www.lmgtfy.com

research links:
http://newteevee.com/2009/07/14/post-pirate-bay-a-federated-tracker-network-emerges/
http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1109.html

stw

By: Janko

Janko — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:04:43 +0000

A link to the original story would be much appreciated … especially if you copy it almost line by line

By: Answer2Cynix

Answer2Cynix — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:42:11 +0000

If the servers do not communicate cryptographically secured, there is _always_ a loop hole. Even secured, if the dns infrastructure itself got compromised, this advantage vanishes.

Maybe it is just http-redirect 302 or something for now, later the interchange of common peers. I don’t know how it works, though. But redirects can work independently from poisoning, because myopentracker.example.com is controlled by me – and the redirects (in form of an ip or domain-name) are configured by me.

By: Cynix

Cynix — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:17:53 +0000

But if all the sites/servers update from each other, then how easy is it to poison the network with bad updates? By it’s very design, if the bad update can be got into the system, the self-replication will make it propagate throughout the network and screw it up.

As we know, keeping just one computer very secure is difficult, hundreds or thousands will be impossible.

This problem has to be thought about very carefully and guarded against with great vigilance.

Perhaps Surfer can enlighten us on this one?

By: NO1UNO

NO1UNO — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:05:36 +0000

quote from Johns response
“I’ll say it again: BitTorrent was not designed to evade law enforcement, and if you want to download pirated content you should use a different protocol.”

That’s the gem right there!! Well said!!

stw

By: Jasper

Jasper — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:43:52 +0000

yeah this is great!!!!!!!!!
fock the mafiaa and the riaa and the ifpi
go to hell yeah the hell you guys limit our internet freedom and you are ruing people’s life’s assholls
your scruwed!!

By: surfer

surfer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:43:19 +0000

while, for all intentions, you are correct John, I was not implying that this was a ‘catch-all’ scenario for illicit (NOT illegal) file sharing, it was an exercise is proving that if the MAFIAA whack one ‘mole’ (tracker), more show up in its place.

encryption could easily be layered over the connectivity to obscure behaviour, or blocked entirely with firewalls (i.e. PG2).

stw

By: John Hoffman

John Hoffman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:27:13 +0000

My response:

http://forums.degreez.net/viewtopic.php?p=29195

By: Thomas Koltai

Thomas Koltai — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:51:42 +0000

hehe