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Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads?
From: brabo <brabo () nrgsports be>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:10:31 +0100
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Simon Jolle sjolle <urandomdev () gmail com> wrote:
Hi security specialists My friend is a heavy bittorrent user. He download there pirated stuff like movies, sound, software, etc What are the security problems from the file sharing scene (for Mac and Linux user)? Are there at all issues? I heard from embedding maleware to Windows Media Files, adding Trojans to pirated applications, etc Please provide me a summary about the security incidents in pirate scenes. thank you cheers Simon
one point i haven't seen made clear is the following: the risk of getting caught transferring copyrighted materials as hibbard points out in his #4, when you are conncted to a 'swarm', your IP address is visible to those who interconnect with you. for a while now, the riaa, mpaa, ifpi and associates are using this to connect to swarms, thus obtaining ip's from those in the swarm. ofcourse, there are resolutions for this. look at peerguardian, ipblock and moblock. these proggies block all ip's known to be of those instances. secondly, fake trackers. riaa and the rest put on fake bittorrent boards to lure people into a trap. to avoid this, get in touch with the scene. go to torrentfreak and the likes for info on such schemes. thirdly, as hibbard pointed out in #3, always use different AND secure passwd's. if the board has secure login available, use it. these things should get you reasonable secure against ending up paying a hefty sum for your escapades ;-) kind regards, brabo. -- Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
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- File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Simon Jolle sjolle (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Alexander Klimov (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Adam Pal (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Alexander Klimov (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mark Laczin (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Orlin Gueorguiev (Mar 28)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Adam Pal (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Alexander Klimov (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? brabo (Mar 28)
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- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? hibbard (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Simon Jolle sjolle (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 26)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Thomas Jespersen (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 27)
- RE: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Nazeem Jansen (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 27)
- Re: RE: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Adam Pal (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? postmaster (Mar 27)
- Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Razi Shaban (Mar 26)