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Aren't there bittorrent clients which autodetect and autoblock clients which connect, but neither upload nor download? Doh! Link to a somewhat more informative
by fluxon 14y ago
Aren't there bittorrent clients which autodetect and autoblock clients which connect, but neither upload nor download? Doh!
Link to a somewhat more informative, less beeby, story:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytrap-catches-copyright-co.html http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytr...
And the lead researcher http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/home.html http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/home.html
Published paper link snaked below! :)
(A previous paper: Analysis of BitTorrent Peers' Behavior and Monitoring Trends http://www.kaspersky.com/images/camilo_andr%D1%83s_gonzalez_toro-10-75858.pdf http://www.kaspersky.com/images/camilo_andr%D1%83s_gonzalez_... which was based on the Snark Project, updated)
- brazzy 14y agoIt would have to be the tracker, not the client, and at best it could somewhat reduce the number of other clients' IP addresses available to suspicious clients, since the classification is based on how they interact with other clients, whose IP addresses they of course have to know.
- baltcode 14y agoIt says a lot of the trackers were not on the blocklists.