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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

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655 points k-ian | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | 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. EvanAnderson ◴[17 Jun 25 21:08 UTC] No.44303976[source]▶
I'm thinking of the Jon Evans novel "Invisible Armies" and the "bug" / backdoor in the P2P software that it's author users to pwm machines.