The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sebastian G.
> <seppi@seppig.de>
> wrote
> on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:46:40 +0100
> <6384laF26l55mU1@mid.dfncis.de>:
>> Bill Baka wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> They do it because they can.
>>>> They don't do it because they can't.
>>> Do you ever get out??
>>> Just because you personally haven't gotten harassed by the government
>>> doesn't mean they aren't watching you.
>>
>> No. You were claiming that they're accessing people's computers
>> at the time, by an included backdoor. And that's obviously nonsense.

How do you know for sure? The government can easily tell them to include
a piece of code for them to use, and if it can be abused the government
will abuse it, Republicans or Democrats.
>
> Not as obvious as one might think. I'd have to look to
> see how BitTorrent works but my understanding is that a
> daemon uses surplus bandwidth, for example.
>
My point was that if the MPAA is allowed access to tracker information
so easily at demonoid.com then they would definitely give it to the
feds. The X-Files had it right, "Trust no one.".
Bill Baka
BTW, most of us hate cross posting so for the record I am on
comp.os.linux.setup.