Hi :) Many people think it's a security problem before they 1. Use it and poke around to see what is going on, what it's doing (or more importantly what they are NOT doing!), monitor download/upload traffic or 2. Read up on it, study the specs, find out about the protocols or read through the code of an open source one to see what it would do.
Oddly, people DONT worry about uploading attachments to emails, playing games online, online banking, giving out credit card info online, using "The Cloud", uploading to SkyDrive, filling in online forms, remote desktopping. People seldom bother to check what ports are routinely open or which flick open temporarily while using proprietary programs. Lets not even start going into cookies and why so many apparently innocuous websites need to install a little bit of code onto your machine. People also feel safe with ActiveX, macros (in documents using MS formats) and even with Java despite articles in the news and warnings from Homeland Security. The most popular password is "password" and has been for decades! 25% (= 1 in 4) of people use 1 of these three as their pin-number for credit cards and other banking cards, door access and other pin-numbers; 1234, 1111, 2222. Each time you use a bank card you get 3 tries. Borrow 4 cards from random people but maybe only use 2 in one machine before walking on to the next bank otherwise it might look suspicious. Of course such crimes tend to be discovered later but recovering the money is more tricky. The card-holders suffer (the legit and the crim) but not the banks, of course. Regards from Tom :) On 22 January 2014 07:13, Tim Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe that using Torrent is a security problem > > > It isn't. I use torrents so as to share with other users and not stress the > LO servers > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
