[LINK] technical question: security alert

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Thu Mar 5 23:54:45 AEDT 2009


On 2009/Mar/05, at 1:28 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 11:22 PM 5/03/2009, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Wow.  I've definitely heard of them.  They are the PI firm that works
>> for the RIAA.  So this is a scan or trace of some kind and not really
>> random noise at all.
>
> Fascinating. I wonder why. Do I have cause for complaint? Were they
> trying to crack my machine? Isn't that somehow illegal?
>
> Jan [half kidding because I don't download illegal material
> knowingly; although who knows what is legal on YouTube, but p2p and
> torrent not by me]


BTW bittorrent is a very efficient way of downloading debian and  
ubuntu, no really, I'm not kidding.

Assuming you weren't using bittorrent then (and anyway from the fact  
that it was logged rather than passed through) it's most likely that  
mediasentry were responding to a previous inhabitant of that IP  
address.  I don't know what they do exactly but possibilities spring  
to mind:  maybe examining what torrents were being accessed by the  
client or possibly offering a fake media file for download or even  
surveying data for their clients about what is the most popular  
download (it's very useful data).

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