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Spying the World from your Laptop -- Identifying and Profiling Content Providers and Big Downloaders in BitTorrent
Stevens Le Blond
a, 1Arnaud Legout
1Fabrice Le Fessant
2Walid Dabbous
a, 1Mohamed Ali Kaafar
a, 1
3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET'10) (2010)
Résumé : This paper presents a set of exploits an adversary can use to continuously spy on most BitTorrent users of the Internet from a single machine and for a long period of time. Using these exploits for a period of 103 days, we collected 148 million IPs downloading 2 billion copies of contents. We identify the IP address of the content providers for 70% of the BitTorrent contents we spied on. We show that a few content providers inject most contents into BitTorrent and that those content providers are located in foreign data centers. We also show that an adversary can compromise the privacy of any peer in BitTorrent and identify the big downloaders that we define as the peers who subscribe to a large number of contents. This infringement on users' privacy poses a significant impediment to the legal adoption of BitTorrent.
- a – INRIA
- 1 : PLANETE (INRIA Sophia Antipolis / INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes)
- INRIA
- 2 : ASAP (INRIA Saclay - Ile de France)
- INRIA – CNRS : UMR – INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées – Université de Rennes 1
- Domaine : Informatique/Réseaux et télécommunications
- inria-00470324, version 1
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- Contributeur : Arnaud Legout
- Soumis le : Mardi 6 Avril 2010, 11:46:39
- Dernière modification le : Vendredi 30 Avril 2010, 14:49:44






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