Lots of possible viruses detected flowing over this, can it be intercepted and used by criminals such as state actors?

AVBIT / retracker_local

Retracker - BitTorrent technology to optimize the exchange (bittorrent) traffic inside the local network.

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Lots of possible viruses detected flowing over this, can it be intercepted and used by criminals such as state actors? #2

Open rugabunda opened 4 years ago

rugabunda commented 4 years ago

According to ClamAV, this thing seems to being targeted a vector for a virus "Win.Trojan" https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/hostname/retracker.local

I am curious if there is some way for this to be exploited by governments via middleboxes

AVBIT commented 2 years ago

Rave. Well, or I didn't understand you.

Wiilf commented 2 years ago

I built my own tracker from ground up including a full featured C# client (zero .NET libraries), so I must say.. both last reply and this project goal does not make sense.

I don't feel this lines up with the tracker/scrape procedures since we are relying on DHT nodes, PEX and tcp/UDP injections - how does this interact?

What does this even do? I'm a big *BSD OS user as well.

AVBIT commented 2 years ago

If you are not an Internet provider, do not own your own DNS servers and cannot add a specific "retracker.local" domain, then this project really does not make sense for you. This is not a torrent tracker, this is a pseudo tracker

Wiilf commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the link