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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (kianbradley.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

well pls resurrect the struck by lightning torrent because its taking forever to download :(

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you have access to real debrid, sometimes they have insanely old torrents in cache. I've resurrected quite a few decades old bangers from the pirate bay that way.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

That's the kind of thing that would be cool to do actually, but I'm not server savy enough to make a server that won't die easily under attacks

[+] [email protected] -46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (23 children)

paying in crypto is nice partly for this reason

But a lot of uneducated people will spam "crypto is a scam"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What reason are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I imagine the part in the article where OPP destroyed the vps and cancelled the domain because he realized he paid for the vps with his credit card?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Crypto is not anonymous, the entire concept of how it works is to be the worlds most public and distributed transaction ledger. It is more difficult to track than credit card transactions, but that's a very big difference from being impossible to track. There have been multiple papers published at this point on how you can de-anonymize any crypto purchase.

People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 weeks ago

Because necromancy is a forbidden art

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny how the author immediately decided to shut everything down when he realized the number of peer/torrents still sending requests to the domain.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Orphaned domains like this are interesting, there was a defcon talk, I think, where the presenter bought a bunch of blacklisted orphaned domains just to see if anything would try and connect to them. They got hit with so many botnet clients trying to phone home.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah those orphaned domains are a goldmine for security researchers, there was a similar talk at blackhat where they showed how expired domains from major companies still recieved auth tokens and sensitive data for months after expiry.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Orphaned IPs as well. If you have an IPv4 from your cloud provider and you want to retire it, you should thoroughly scrub your DNS and all other configs before doing so. Otherwise it's trivial for someone else to spin up a machine on that IP address and abuse your domain.

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