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| reply to cypherstream
Re: RIP utorrent
said by cypherstream  :Wouldn't peer guardian be able to detect and stop this report back nonsense?
Yes, unless uTorrent was super-sneaky and installed something at a very low level of the networking stack. But that would be detectable too.
The uTorrent documentation acknowledges that it connects at startup to check for new versions, only if the user has enabled that feature; and that it connects to a uTorrent server at startup if DHT is turned on. You have to allow those connectios, for those features to work. It could be delivering more information than claimed, but this would be detectable with packet inspection.
Apart from these exceptions, yes, any other connections would appear on logs like the Peer Guardian display. You would have to know what IPs to look for (to distinguish the "spy" connections, if any, from the legitimate ones belonging to torrent swarms). |
