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anilgulecha on Feb 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision

Bittorrent is not a static/unchanged old protocol. It has constantly evolved to keep up with any attacks that could be mounted on it's distributed nature.

I'm sure a BEP will also come up, and speedtracked on the back of this news.

ktta on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

The importance of that update cannot be understated. Torrents are much more viable to being exploited than anything else out there.

I think everyone should be on alert for updates to their favorite torrent softwares.

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