Bit Torrent Protocols

An examination (through theory, polemic, "utopian plagiarism", & anecdote) of the potentially fruitful cross-talk between punk and media piracy in the interest of developing a poethics of transgression which can function as both a theory and practice of anti-capitalist approaches to culture, art, and media.

Seedboxes are used around the world to rapidly distribute data over peer-to-peer BitTorrent (BT) protocol. They are regarded as decentralization for data distribution. However, there exist inherent inefficiencies on its implementation. Users often download identical data, and current technologies treat each users' data as unique. This approach disadvantages seedbox providers as massive identical data are stored multiple times, reducing storage efficiency, increasing bandwidth demands, and increasing operational costs. In this abstract, we introduce a method to eliminate these inefficiencies and ultimately reduce operational costs.

It is possible to transfer gigabits of data with near perfect secrecy using the BitTorrent Protocols and BitTorrent Objects
providing one concatenates them together in a way to provide essentially concatenated encryption (as single step
encryption does not fully hide predictable plaintexts).

However, each BitTorrent object must be partially washed of its original value at the nibble (or byte) level, so as to
create meaningful intermediate cyphertext.

It is best that all of this be done by reprogramming (by command) LibTorrent, but with a separate function library
called say RotorSecure_LibTorrent.

At least initially this circumvented library should have 2 operating modes : Outbound Server or Inbound Server. The
roles should be changeable by a CAPCHA interface for secure reverse messaging. Some efforts must be made to hide
this encryption function library, but nothing too difficult to debug.

To hide a secret in the open, a public domain open source version of this technology should be available on the open
internet.

Branch code versions (for say individual Intelligence Agency use) should be maintained separately.

The outbound transmission (including any keying state negotiations, inbound or outbound) should appear as perfectly
bland and ordinary BitTorrent encrypted file transfers of no special importance.

Today, the modern world has been computerized to a huge extent because of the increasing penetration of the Internet. There is a plethora of services available on the web platform these days. Services available may be either legitimate or illegitimate. International borders have been effectively eliminated with the help of the internet and so more and more companies are offering their services across the globe. The physical location of the service provider doesn’t matter anymore. Since every request that is sent to the WWW, every message that is relayed and, in fact, every click is logged somewhere on the internet, it gives rise to a huge knowledge base of user data. This knowledge base can be manipulated and exploited in a number of ways. This poses a great threat to any individual user who wants to utilize the services available on the internet anonymously. A mechanism is required using which individuals can maintain their own privacy from global organizations such as the NSA, Google, etc. which are believed to collect huge amounts of personal user data. The TOR network goes a long way in doing that and abstracts the user from the conventional internet. But TOR itself isn’t free from vulnerabilities. In this paper, a vulnerability with the ONION routing protocol, which is the spine of the TOR network, has been presented. It has been analyzed and a technique to overcome it has also been discussed to make the TOR network safer for anonymous use on the World Wide Web.

An article about online piracy and it's over-the-top overwhelming effects that somewhere are it's root causes of existence. And more importantly an article about the past consequences, when piracy meets overwhelm. A must read article whether you are a pirate or not. And it's not boring, I bet.