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by pbrook 5146 days ago
Leave it to TorrentFreak to take a couple sentences of hypothesis from a thoroughly researched analysis and blow it into a story. Reading the original piece, it is clear that the source and purpose of these packets is unknown, and behavior has been observed which wouldn't necessarily match up with a poisoning attack. It is unfortunate that TorrentFreak couldn't just report the anomaly accurately, and instead had to spin it into something completely unfounded.
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Well it seems very similar to the Pirate Pay system, https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-ki...
Nobody would read it if they did that.