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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

(kianbradley.com)
655 points k-ian | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ck45 ◴[17 Jun 25 19:31 UTC] No.44302950[source]▶
My first thought is, how many BitTorrent clients have vulnerable parsing code? Could a malicious actor register the domain and infect clients?
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1. SSLy ◴[17 Jun 25 20:11 UTC] No.44303420[source]▶
utorrent v2.1 is still widely used by too many people, and it certainly is exploitable.