Collaborate Disseminate
For a fair number of torrents I’m dealing with (qBittorrent 3.3.7 here), I see a number of entries in the “Peers” list (it apparently only shows peers that are currently connected) with client_test/1.0.6.0 in the “Client” col… Continue reading Suspected fake torrent peers with "client_test" ID
Fifty-one million iMesh accounts are for sale on Dark Web for $700, bringing the number of user accounts tied to recent breaches to over 700 million. Continue reading 51 Million iMesh Accounts Available on Black Market
I’ve been reading about ZeroNet and thought about putting a site together but have concerns that it may be vulnerable to the issue laid out in What can an attacker with 51% of hash power do?.
From what I understand, if a ma… Continue reading Are ZeroNet websites susceptible to 51% control attack?
Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. Now imagine that the geek gear you bought doesn’t actually let you block this P2P communication without some serious networking expertise or hardware surgery that few users would attempt. Continue reading This is Why People Fear the ‘Internet of Things’
My understanding is that with the WebRTC peer-to-peer data API, communications between peers are encrypted via a modified form of SSL. Where are the keys for the peer-to-peer SSL connection generated, though? On the original … Continue reading WebRTC P2P SSL – Where are the keys generated?
I’m building an open source distributed (and partly offline replicated, as it’s assumed that the network will be unstable) CMS and one of the core system ‘job’ will be to group all the files and generate a unique hash from th… Continue reading Is a file hash checking system 100% secure and non-bypassable/fakable?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but for a node to participate in peer-to-peer, if it’s behind NAT, it must port forward to be able to connect. Why is the port forwarding necessary? I know there are exceptions to this i.e. NAT traversals, but I’d … Continue reading Why does P2P need port forwarding when behind NAT? [closed]
Recently the USA passed a law requiring ISPs to spy on their customers’ internet connections to check for illegal file sharing. I assume that they would do this by sniffing packets, but doesn’t this all go down the drain if p… Continue reading How effectively can ISPs detect illegal file sharing?
I have been trying to hack around with Apex DirectConnect. What I wish to do is to utilize the querying nature of P2P apps like DC to generate a DDoS attack (see links for reference here, here and here).
To quote from one of the references… Continue reading Creating a DDoS attack using DirectConnect
I’ve noticed growing popularity in proxy services for torrent clients; such as BTGuard. Most torrent clients encrypt traffic so aren’t these services pointless? I read that it’s because the encryption is only for obfuscation,… Continue reading proxy services for torrents vs encrypting data