Comments on: The Next Big DDOS Attack May Come via BitTorrent

By: BotTorrent? Using BitTorrent as a DDoS Tool | TorrentFreak

BotTorrent? Using BitTorrent as a DDoS Tool | TorrentFreak — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:02:53 +0000

[...] large ‘swarms’ of peers are great for sharing, but they also pose a threat as became apparent at the Chaos Communications Congress (CCC) [...]

By: Comparing Bit Torrent Downloaders « DECISION STATS

Comparing Bit Torrent Downloaders « DECISION STATS — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:26:32 +0000

[...] The Next Big DDOS Attack May Come via BitTorrent (gigaom.com) [...]

By: DDoS-атака через пиринговые сети

DDoS-атака через пиринговые сети — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:31:46 +0000

[...] By vharitonov • December 29, 2010 The BitTorrent protocol can be abused to initiate massive denial of service attacks, which could be used to take down large-scale websites, according to a talk given at Germany’s annual Chaos Communications Congress hacker conference. The exploit detailed during a talk titled “Lying to the neighbors” is based on BitTorrent’s ability to download data without the help of any centralized server, also known as trackerless BitTorrent. via gigaom.com [...]

By: Jagan Mangat

Jagan Mangat — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:43:07 +0000

Well thank you Gigaom for helping me with two things,first i was struggling to know exact functioning of bittorrents and second you made me hesitate using torrents for doing unnecessary downloads.
Keep it up.