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BitTorrent developers working on encryption to defeat ISP interference

article published on 18 February, 2008

It was only a matter of time before the BitTorrent community decided to take on the "network management" practices of ISPs like Comcast. According to TorrentFreak that's exactly what a small group of developers is doing. They're working to implement what's being termed as Peer List Obfuscation, referring to its goal of hiding the list of peers returned by a torrent Tracker when queried ... [ read the full article ]

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dude845
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 00:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ROFL. Owned?
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tripplite
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 00:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
mwahhhhhhhhhhhha

another victory is at hand!!!!!!!
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xugiua
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 00:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That is sweet, I hope they figure it out soon so we can slap them in the face. Take that ISP bastards!!
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Blackjax
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 01:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And the chess match continues.

Underground Programmers: It's my will against yours and you will lose!

ISPs: ruh roh raggy!
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 08:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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But also that they'll end up with even more traffic due to the overhead from encryption.
lol... serves them right. We pay for the bandwidth, they have no right to tell us what to do with it.
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drach
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 09:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
will this hurt media sentry's efforts too?
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nobrainer
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Originally posted by drach:
 will this hurt media sentry's efforts too?
not really as they join the peer list and obtain IP's from there but they are developing p2p clients which will include IP anomalising technology, which with the encryption will make it impossible to trace anybody.
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elroy2055
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This sounds like a really really good idea! I think if you pay for a internet connection, Sometimes upwards of 60+ bucks you should be able to use that connection for whatever you want rather it's surfing the net or stealing the latest Mp3! Thats just my 2 cents.
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 17:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Haha I had a feeling this was gonna happen, big props to all the devs working on this project. BTW comcast you just got pawnd!
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wolf123
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Originally posted by elroy2055:
 This sounds like a really really good idea! I think if you pay for a internet connection, Sometimes upwards of 60+ bucks you should be able to use that connection for whatever you want rather it's surfing the net or stealing the latest Mp3! Thats just my 2 cents.
I agree wtf are paying for if we can't download what we want and if you are not burning multiple copies whats the hurt any way.

There are saying you can't even make backups of what you own.
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Apluades this well done work. This has been a long time comming. I will be waiting for this software and i would be the first one to download the software. Keep up the good work.
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