Re: (OT) Bit Torrent usage ...
Adam Gibson wrote:
bruce wrote:
> there is no security issue, other than the fact that
> you need to specify/open ports, and you need to 'trust' your client app.
[snip]
program. I don't know of any security issues with the source to
Python
or BitTorrent but I doubt anyone could say it does not have any
exploitable security issues as a fact.
IMHO opening ports so that anonymous users can connect and send data to
a program running on the user's desktop should throw up red flags for
many security cautious users.
[snip]
Thank you. That is precisely my concern. Admittedly, I know very little
about Bit Torrent. But when I first started reading about it, alarm
bells started going off in my head.
Mike
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