Sebastian G. wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Not as obvious as one might think.
>
>
> None of the things you mentioned gives any evidence that such a thing is
> happening.

Like they would leave evidence?
>
> > I'd have to look to see how BitTorrent works but my understanding is
> that
> > a daemon uses surplus bandwidth, for example.
>
> Which is an obvious instance of the reasons why one shouldn't use
> untrusted software. The BitTorrent client from Bram Cohen became
> untrustworthy when he decided to cooperate with the media mafia.
>
>
>
So far I haven't used BitTorrent, just Ktorrent and utorrent.
I'm starting to play with Azureus but haven't downloaded anything with
it yet.
I have all the music I could ever want or listen to so I don't download
MP3 files, only the odd something I may want to check out.
As to the bandwidth, Ktorrent sucks up all it can get and it really
messes up my mail and news, and even my browser (Firefox).

Never underestimate the government. Who do you think hires the best and
brightest?
Bill Baka