Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

[David Farber <dfarber () cs cmu edu>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: January 21, 2008 12:49:35 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent
Written by enigmax on January 14, 2008
<http://torrentfreak.com/video-how-people-are-tracked-using-bittorrent-080114/ 
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Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement  
notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security  
project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

A common question from BitTorrent users is how anti-p2p outfits trace  
and trace file-sharers in order to send infringement notices. We’ve  
reported on one techniquein the past and now, thanks to Dan Morrill, a  
Security Project Manager with VMC Consulting in Redmond Washington, we  
have a short video illustrating another basic technique which is easy  
to understand.

Dan’s example involves him downloading a large file with the popular  
Azureus client, while giving a commentary on the various types of  
information offered by the client, a brief overview of how BitTorrent  
works, how it’s possible to be tracked and how the gathered  
information could be processed. He also touches on anonymity and the  
use of blocklists.

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