(OT) Bit Torrent usage ...

[Mike McCarty]

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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