▲ 268 ▼ Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com) submitted 2 years ago by remington@beehaw.org [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org 35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] lud@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 36 points 2 years ago (2 children) If the feds connect to the tracker before the file is fully seeded, the IP address of the lone seeder will be exposed. Torrents are good for their resistance to censorship, but they're bad for privacy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago That can be solved by setting up multiple partial seeders, so none has the full file, but as a whole they can still seed it. And/or seeding over I2P. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago TIL permalink fedilink source parent [–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I’m sure people will be seeding it in no time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LordJer@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago Anyone got the file to open? I tried using mega but ran into problems. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 36 points 2 years ago (2 children) If the feds connect to the tracker before the file is fully seeded, the IP address of the lone seeder will be exposed. Torrents are good for their resistance to censorship, but they're bad for privacy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago That can be solved by setting up multiple partial seeders, so none has the full file, but as a whole they can still seed it. And/or seeding over I2P. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago TIL permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago That can be solved by setting up multiple partial seeders, so none has the full file, but as a whole they can still seed it. And/or seeding over I2P. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I’m sure people will be seeding it in no time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LordJer@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago Anyone got the file to open? I tried using mega but ran into problems. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LordJer@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago Anyone got the file to open? I tried using mega but ran into problems. permalink fedilink source parent