how secure is Bittorrent?
It's not secure.
How can one know how trustworthy the stuff downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is?
You need to have an external source of information which specifies a checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with. If you trust the Torrent tracker file, then BitTorrent has this part built-in. Otherwise, you would use something like the distinfo files in /usr/ports to help confirm the validity of files.
On the other hand, Torrent doesn't do any worse than FTP or HTTP.
-- -Chuck
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