anon
20.12.08, 17:05
When you want to get a precious cargo moved in a cool way in a Hollywood movie, look no further than Frank Martin, aka The Transporter. When you want to get precious stuff from A to B over the Internet, the 'cool' way is by using BitTorrent. But did you know you can hack a military satellite with it in seconds?
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A few minutes after the hour mark, the true evil of the bad guys becomes apparent. At the order of the chief baddie, an operative is told to "hack into a military satellite", which he achieves in just a few seconds and, as is compulsory when anyone in Hollywood hacks a computer or cracks a code, the camera swings to a computer screen as rows and rows of complicated-looking text rolls by, dramatizing the process.
It seems that an old Mac version of the BitTorrent Mainline client, developed by BitTorrent Inc., is used to hack the satellite. Unfortunately, or perhaps part of the process - it crashed immediately.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2576/btsshotke9.jpg
Concerned at this nefarious use of our favorite technology, we contacted the person responsible for this piece of technology, to find out what on earth is going on. In response to the report, Andrew Lowenstern, the developer of the old client noted: "Clearly, the technical consultants for Transporter 3 have good taste in obsolete BT clients. You can see they created that crash report themselves since it says the exception type is a breakpoint."
BitTorrent Crash Linked to Military Satellite Hack | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-crash-linked-to-military-satellite-hack-081219/)
So, v4.0.2 of the Mainline client had a hidden feature that let you hack military satellites in a few seconds? Wish I had used it more often when it was brand-new. And how could he manage to crash it? Making a torrent with the satellite's Web interface as the tracker and putting it up at TPB? :biggrin:
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A few minutes after the hour mark, the true evil of the bad guys becomes apparent. At the order of the chief baddie, an operative is told to "hack into a military satellite", which he achieves in just a few seconds and, as is compulsory when anyone in Hollywood hacks a computer or cracks a code, the camera swings to a computer screen as rows and rows of complicated-looking text rolls by, dramatizing the process.
It seems that an old Mac version of the BitTorrent Mainline client, developed by BitTorrent Inc., is used to hack the satellite. Unfortunately, or perhaps part of the process - it crashed immediately.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2576/btsshotke9.jpg
Concerned at this nefarious use of our favorite technology, we contacted the person responsible for this piece of technology, to find out what on earth is going on. In response to the report, Andrew Lowenstern, the developer of the old client noted: "Clearly, the technical consultants for Transporter 3 have good taste in obsolete BT clients. You can see they created that crash report themselves since it says the exception type is a breakpoint."
BitTorrent Crash Linked to Military Satellite Hack | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-crash-linked-to-military-satellite-hack-081219/)
So, v4.0.2 of the Mainline client had a hidden feature that let you hack military satellites in a few seconds? Wish I had used it more often when it was brand-new. And how could he manage to crash it? Making a torrent with the satellite's Web interface as the tracker and putting it up at TPB? :biggrin: