Very true. But from the initial comment it sounded like: "I need to leave the front door to my house wide open to use bittorrent?" When the answer is something like, "No, but you will have to have some sort of specially designated hole for the data to pass through"...
I don't know enough technical details to say "how secure" it is, but given the number of people using bittorrent, I'm going to base my assumption on just my own speculation. However, personally my basic philosophy is that I don't have any "life or death" files, etc. I realize there is more than a slight chance that my computer could be wiped out either through my own stupidity, hardware failure, or someone else's evilness, etc. Sure, there are ways to protect yourself, but there's no way to be 100% safe. Same as with anything else in life. Levi (: On 5/8/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Levi Smith as of Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:34:36PM -0400: [snip] > EVERYTHING is a risk.... Not all risks are equivalent. Bittorrent appears to be a data-only protocol, so it's probably pretty safe... especially if you make sure it has no access to sensitive data. I'm going to have to play with it to see if it'll run in a Java sandbox. So long as it doesn't demand custom classloaders, that is. Otherwise it'll need a bigger sandbox. :) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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