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| Subject: | RE: Identifying seed file IP address in Exeem, BT and KaZaA |
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| Date: | Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:38:14 -0700 |
-----Original Message----- From: Lance James [mailto:lancej@securescience.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:36 PM To: Pluto Cc: forensics@securityfocus.com Subject: Re: Identifying seed file IP address in Exeem, BT and KaZaA Pluto wrote:On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:20:37PM -0700, Lance James wrote:There are tools, mostly standard network forensic tools.BitTorrent youcan see the owner of the seed since the IP address isembedded withintheir .torrent file.the ip of the tracker, who does not have to have anyrelations with theseeding person. Some trackers are open to anyone and you canuse them for urmeans without the tracker collaborating with you Albeit the RIAA has a different view on this. Having atracker is a crimein their point of view.Right - they view the tracker as the distributer I believe - thus the IP there is the target.
Which is funny as the tracker doesn't actually HAVE the file. Even more so with the decentralized additions to BitTorrent, the need for a tracker almost goes away.
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