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"BitTorrent Roulette" sounds like a wonderful way to end up with child porn on your computer.

• CyanBird 4y ago
  Are people still so naive as to use torrent for that? Well I'd guess I might be the naive, given the ample amount of honey pots and such
  • r3trohack3r 4y ago
    I’ve found that, no, they aren’t. The ratio of this content on the DHT is so incredibly low you’re very unlikely to pull it. I never have, and I’ve resolved a metric tonne of random torrent hashes. You do find content labeled as such - but it’s either password protected rars (I suspect the password is to remove plausible deniability? Idk what’s inside these rars, I obviously don’t have the password and I immediately shred them when they do fall out of the roulette wheel - I’m not interested in trying to break into them) or a honeypot with a government agency video advertising a support hotline. I’ve noticed a government in LatAm has a lot of honeypot content on the public BitTorrent DHT. It’s a guy sitting at a desk in front of the state flag advertising an anonymous support hotline. I have, however found some ethically questionable things. Dumps of credit card info, sus military schematics written in an Eastern European language, etc. Ethics aside - if you live in the United States, more than 90% of what falls out of the Roulette Wheel is going to be strictly illegal because of copyright law. Downloading random hashes from the DHT is not something I’d suggest doing from a computer that can easily be traced back to your identity. I summarize this in the README of Taboo: https://github.com/retrohacker/taboo https://github.com/retrohacker/taboo