Aaaannddddd....stay out of my Internet, big brother. I'm not pirating anything these days, but that doesn't mean I want you sniffing in my legal torrent traffic.
[Ars] Air Force engineers develop BitTorrent sniffer
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exactly my thought lol.
ive never ever used torrents and dont intend to but i dont want people keeping an eye over my internet,i have nothing to hide but i dont like the idea that people can see my personal data, cc details,account numbers, passwords etc!
and i personally cant trust the government especially with sensitive data,i mean just look at the muppets who leave laptops on trains which contain 0000's of NI details etc
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Originally Posted by vicious_fishes why would the air force care ? |
ive never ever used torrents and dont intend to but i dont want people keeping an eye over my internet,i have nothing to hide but i dont like the idea that people can see my personal data, cc details,account numbers, passwords etc!
and i personally cant trust the government especially with sensitive data,i mean just look at the muppets who leave laptops on trains which contain 0000's of NI details etc
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I think it was designed to stop illegal pirating on government computers.
Originally Posted by vicious_fishes why would the air force care ? |
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Because it is a proven effective spying method:
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Originally Posted by vicious_fishes why would the air force care ? |
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Originally Posted by Slashdot A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama's helicopter. 'We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president's helicopter,' says Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, a security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology. Tiversa was able to track the file, discovered at an IP address in Tehran, Iran, back to its original source. 'What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,' says Boback, adding that someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, without realizing the potential problems. 'I'm sure that person is embarrassed and may even lose their job, but we know where it came from and we know where it went.' Iran is not the only country that appears to be accessing this type of information through file-sharing programs. 'We've noticed it out of Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar and China. They are actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence.'" |
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better services!? Educate us!
Originally Posted by Col. Newman Lovely more censorship on the internet. Bit Torrents are old school though everyone that knows better has moved on to better services. |
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Sounds to me like we already have.
Originally Posted by gr8racr the design info needs to be made open source so a block can be built to thwart this method of spying. |
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as the system is easily thwarted by encrypting BitTorrent traffic, which already happens for some 25 percent of BitTorrent traffic today. |
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This is WAY too low key (100mbps) to be used on a major scale. I'm thinking they're going to use this to monitor their own traffic... considering the Marine one thing last week.
What's weird to me, though, is why would they even bother? Why not just prevent any unauthorized software from being on their network? I think that's a better method of prevention. Besides, I don't want to pay government employees to sit at work and torrent anything. Let them do that at home =p
Originally Posted by 003 And how the hell can they legally inspect end user data packets?! |
What's weird to me, though, is why would they even bother? Why not just prevent any unauthorized software from being on their network? I think that's a better method of prevention. Besides, I don't want to pay government employees to sit at work and torrent anything. Let them do that at home =p
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do tell.......whats the new thing?? lol im still stuck on newsgroups lol!!
Originally Posted by Col. Newman Lovely more censorship on the internet. Bit Torrents are old school though everyone that knows better has moved on to better services. |
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ISP's already inspect traffic of its users to limit bandwidth either in whole or on specific ports. This will just be a step up and will try to flag certain content as copyright. It doesn't matter as more and more people every day use encrypted BT connections.
Originally Posted by 003 And how the hell can they legally inspect end user data packets?! |
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