, SecurityFocus 2003-04-30
To the Recording Industry Association of America, sending threatening messages to online music swappers is a potentially effective way to educate the public that trading copyrighted material is wrong. But to security geeks in the file trading community, the technique is just another volley in the electronic war with peer-to-peer opponents... and a rather trivial one at that.
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RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures
2003-05-02
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
you need to be traceable in order to connect; that's how TCP/IP works, yes, you can encrypt the traffic, but 'they' will still be able to detect that x amount of traffic passed to/from your IP.
What I'm waiting for is a system where you connect, and then a certain amount of your HD is used as storage for the mp3s, in a random style; yes, the functionality would be less, but this way at least ou could honestly say that you had no idea that xyz.mp3 was on your system. The idea obviously needs fleshing out, but the end plan is that no-one can pinpoint the location of a specific file, nor who is connected, nor when.
If you also released a trojan that installs the program surruptisiously, you could also say that you had no idea you had been infected with the nasty filesharing program.
Obfuscate and produce FUD, that's, IMHO, the way to go (plus 1024bit encrpytion)
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