Comments on: BitTorrent Clients Are A Security Risk, RIAA Probably Ecstatic

By: Uzumaki

Uzumaki — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:29:51 +0000

Most retarded topic I’ve ever seen in my life!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bali

Bali — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:47:54 +0000

TRUTH LARRY HAVE REASON

By: Larry Larrikin

Larry Larrikin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:20:51 +0000

Typical TechCrunch story. Duncan is going solely for drama and sensationalism to draw an audience, truth be damned. Arrington is incredibly short-sighted to let this happen. He will attract a wider audience but his core, technical audience will move on to something better. I guess he’s thinking he’ll sell out before that happens.

By: Alex Barrera

Alex Barrera — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:15:03 +0000

How about linking to the original advisory?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:49 +0000

The title of this post is lamely dramatic. Do you need shocking titles to get readers now? I thought this was techcrunch, not perezhilton

By: damon

damon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:15:18 +0000

Actually, any client is a security risk, who knows what’s in there

By: Ajouter32

Ajouter32 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:05:19 +0000

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By: Los clientes BitTorrent son un riesgo de seguridad (no legalmente hablando) :

Los clientes BitTorrent son un riesgo de seguridad (no legalmente hablando) : — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:48:55 +0000

[...] Los más populares clientes de BitTorrent, como puede ser el cliente oficial de BitTorrent 6,0, uTorrent 1.7.x, uTorrent 1.6.x y uTorrent 1.8-alpha-7834, pueden ser vulnerables a una denegación de servicio (DOS)… [...]

By: LiveCrunch

LiveCrunch — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:48:39 +0000

That’s why I use StrongDC on linux …but it’s also aval. for winnys …

By: matt

matt — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:44:46 +0000

please change the title of this post from “Security Risk” to “Annoying Bug”

Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:40:51 +0000

They already fixed it.
From Torrentfreak:
“The uTorrent team state the flaw affects all older uTorrent versions 1.6 and 1.7.x. too but have been quick to respond, releasing a new build – uTorrent 1.7.6 (build 7859) which has fixed the issue.

It can be downloaded here. http://download....6/utorrent.exe “

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:34:40 +0000

Nothing to worry about I guess… I’m sure they’ll come out with a fix.