bandwidth_pig
10-06-2002, 01:37 PM
Don't know if any of you use E-Donkey for P2P, but I have some paranoid thoughts about the Donkey. I'm curious to see what others think.
E-Donkey (the command line linux client) seg faults on me all the time. I recall one time reading that programs that are prone to segmentation faults are usually exploitable in terms of buffer overflows.
Another interesting thought is how the Donkey seems to be structuring. You need to get a high user ID number in order to be able to download at any kind of speed anymore. In order for you to get a high user ID, you have to be pingable from the Donkey network (aka no firewall). Ok.
Now throw the whole DCMA thing into the picture. For those of you who have been following the whole peer to peer thing, it appears that record companies, motion picture companies, software companies etc, are really getting serious about file sharing software. They are reportedly using software that gathers file sharing users IP addresses. And for those who read slashdot, there was even talk of DoS attacks and hacking into file sharing users computers. So...
Why do the folks at E-Donkey make software that functions poorly behind a firewall? And why, does it have so many segmentation faults? Suddenly, when running the Donkey, it seems as though one is put in a position that your machine becomes much more hackable. Of course, that is file sharing software in general, but the combination in this case is interesting. The whole user ID thing used to not exist. Perhaps this their way of keeping the DCMA and friends off their butts! Then again, this is most likely just another paranoid rant that most likely belongs in another forum is off topic (sorry about that).
E-Donkey (the command line linux client) seg faults on me all the time. I recall one time reading that programs that are prone to segmentation faults are usually exploitable in terms of buffer overflows.
Another interesting thought is how the Donkey seems to be structuring. You need to get a high user ID number in order to be able to download at any kind of speed anymore. In order for you to get a high user ID, you have to be pingable from the Donkey network (aka no firewall). Ok.
Now throw the whole DCMA thing into the picture. For those of you who have been following the whole peer to peer thing, it appears that record companies, motion picture companies, software companies etc, are really getting serious about file sharing software. They are reportedly using software that gathers file sharing users IP addresses. And for those who read slashdot, there was even talk of DoS attacks and hacking into file sharing users computers. So...
Why do the folks at E-Donkey make software that functions poorly behind a firewall? And why, does it have so many segmentation faults? Suddenly, when running the Donkey, it seems as though one is put in a position that your machine becomes much more hackable. Of course, that is file sharing software in general, but the combination in this case is interesting. The whole user ID thing used to not exist. Perhaps this their way of keeping the DCMA and friends off their butts! Then again, this is most likely just another paranoid rant that most likely belongs in another forum is off topic (sorry about that).