[72566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional differences in P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Jul 17 04:25:16 2004
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:24:39 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407170403280.27470-100000@newnat.outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>I have't seen all that much warez doing the rounds of random ftp sites -
>quite often running on backdoored boxes in places with a lot more
>bandwidth than clue level (corporations, student dorm rooms ...)
>
>
>
You´re probably mixing the random joe-jobs which put some random files
up at ftp servers having a writeable directory from the organized
trading scene which is hardly visible from anything else than long fat
flows flying in high TCP ports. However the actual data is usually not
encrypted while the ftp-command session is.
Pete