tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21633793.post2970432351418451390..comments2023-12-12T03:19:42.467-05:00Comments on CYB3RCRIM3: Peer Spectre RevisitedSusan Brennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575138839291052258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21633793.post-39382252459926666832010-11-10T22:09:19.288-05:002010-11-10T22:09:19.288-05:00But I think the point that the court was making is...But I think the point that the court was making is that 'publically available' on a P2P network is similar to me standing outside of your house and hollering "Hey! You got any child porn that I can have?" And you yelling back, "Sure, I got some 'Vicky' files for you." You and I do not have some kind of special relationship whereby our communications would be privileged or legally confidential. I'm just a perv, and you're just a perv, and we are just two pervs talking & trading porn.<br /><br />So when I start up Limewire or whatever and I type in a search term for child porn, its like me running up and down the street yelling at houses asking for porn. To listen to me you might have to have Limewire. But anybody with Limewire can hear me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21633793.post-22058989832371105612010-11-10T01:39:56.374-05:002010-11-10T01:39:56.374-05:00I don't think its publicly available. Unless ...I don't think its publicly available. Unless you know which peer-2-peer software they are using you won't be listening to the right communications channel to view their files.<br /><br />The files they are sharing are also not broadcast so that anyone can find them. You have to connect to one of the p2p servers who knows who is on that particular p2p network and do a search.<br /><br />The statement "What the software does is read publically available advertisements" can easily be used to mislead someone into thinking they didn't have to do a deep packet inspection or actively asking to computer being searched for information. In the real world the phrase "publically available advertisements" could easily mean a poster declaring come to my house for some criminal activity. You can easily see it from public land and you are passive in acquiring the information on the poster. However, in the p2p world the "publically available advertisements" are targeted at another computer and are encoded in such a way you can't passively acquire the information in the communication.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com