I hear you well and clear.
The guy is delusional and has NO basis for his argument.
He is probably just an amateur and has been burnt downloading what he
thought was a Virtual Sex 3D game which turned out to be some infected
trojan/spy ware
Tough.
BT is one of the most revolutionary technologies in the dynamic data
distribution arena and should be hailed for its ingeniuity.
Plus it DOES have checksum controls inplace therefore authenticity of
media/data downloaded can be verified via a torrent checksum site or
most large popular torrent catalogue/directory sites.
Don't worry mate, you've got your head screwed on right. This guy Graham
still goes to work in a horse and carriage, and whilst I'd love to be
back in the ages, unfortunately evolution has caught up with us..
tata
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Thrailkill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bob Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Graham Toal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [misc] OpenBSD VMWare image too popular
Why would downloading an OS image from a torrent be any less safe than
getting it from some random http server? AFAIK the pieces of the file
you get from the torrent can't be tampered with, the only thing is
that
the total file itself might be a bogus one. But you have the same
problem with an http hosted file also. In both cases, you want to be
able to trust the source of the torrent -- either the guy putting up
the
torrent or the guy hosting the file on his http server.
Or am I totally out of line? Torrents seem to generally work ok for
alot of Linux distros, I've never heard of anyone, say, poisoning an
official (i.e. trusted source putting up the torrent) Redhat torrent
or
something like that.
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:06 -0700, Bob Beck wrote:
* Graham Toal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-05 12:14]:
> If it's that popular it's worth setting up a torrent!
>
> G
Eeek.
I walked into this thread initially thinking this was a picture or
logo or something... now shuddering violently at the thought of
running an OS image downloaded from bittorrent.. I suppose it works
for windows virusus, but my glasses still go dark, and I'm still
losing sphincter control..
-Bob
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Matt Thrailkill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
