P2P Botnets
Just as the centrally based botnets are being taken down by authorities, new peer to peer (P2P) botnets are popping up to replace them. In P2P botnets, each bot, or infected machine, contains addition…
Archive for the 'Technology' Category
24 July
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04 May
0Comments ING Direct Adds New P2P Feature To IPhone App
ING Direct gives new face to its mobile banking application by introducing P2P feature through which customers can pay to each other by bumping their IPhones. This P2P feature is enhanced from the pop…
11 June
0Comments Virgin and the BPI team up…
In a concerning agreement, UK ISP virgin media has teamed up with the BPI with the intention of sending warning letters to those who they suspect of sharing files illegally.
While no details will b…
29 February
0Comments NBC Embraces P2P
The TV industry, one of the groups most affected by "illegal" downloading of it's content, has finally begun to embrace p2p technology, although of course, it's DRMed to the hilt…
30 November
0Comments The Pirate Bay updates it’s music section
The Pirate Bay, legendary torrent site, has updated it's interface for Music torrents to something really rather smart. The new system, shown in the image of amy winehouse's profile below, is …
06 September
0Comments P2P For AI
Similar to SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), the search for AI (Artificial Intelligence) has now turned to distributed P2P computing.
The Artificial Intelligence System (AIS) brea…
31 July
0Comments Windows Media Center DRM – Now With More Bugs!
A recent controversy over Microsoft Windows Media Center has highlighted the perils of DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM uses secured formats that can cause incompatibilities with other hardware an…
06 July
0Comments Project Playlist: Straddling the Line
I admire the folks at project playlist. They've developed a service that carefully navigates copyright infringement, at least how the recording industry plays that game today.
I'll ignore th…
28 June
0Comments Microsoft Smoked Weed
Shared Media Licensing's (SML) Weedshare, an early digital music service, has suspended operations. Weedshare was smoked by Microsoft, whose latest version of Windows Media Player was incompatible…
27 June
0Comments Jimmy’s Music Finder
Jimmy Ruska's Awesome Video Blog at jimmyr.com proves there is plenty of unauthorized music sitting on the web, courtesy of Google and your browser. No need to fire up your P2P software.
The web …