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Re: "University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police"


From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:15:05 -0500

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:48 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:17:56 PST, Blue Boar said:
I'd be rather surprised if they can spot P2P traffic, but not determine
which torrent is being transferred.

Consider an encrypted torrent - it should be fairly easy to identify
that it's a torrent by traffic analysis, but no clue what it is....
The torrent's name tends to leak information :(
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