Since I like to save the project bandwidth (and money?) and I like the idea of bittorrent as such for various reasons I would happily seed the last two or three .isos on one of my rootservers, as long as leechers don’t exceed my traffic limits.
Somebody else interested in seeding my favourite distro?
This is where I am regularly looking for torrents’s projects that I like, and I seed them as long as I can https://linuxtracker.org
It could be a good idea to post your link over there.
The torrent file you downloaded is not executable and searchsploit gives me
$ searchsploit transmission
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Exploit Title | Path | (/usr/share/exploitdb/)
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MapInfo Discovery 1.0/1.1 - Cleartext | exploits/asp/webapps/24370.txt
Transmission - Integer Overflows Parsi | exploits/multiple/dos/44178.txt
Transmission - RPC DNS Rebinding | exploits/multiple/remote/43665.md
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Shellcodes: No Result
Papers: No Result
If dobbie03 would want to hijack your bittorrent client he had to use a zeroday-exploit and I doubt firefox could detect a zeroday. As maintainer of archlabs Dobbie had much easier means to get control over your system.
Anyway I doubt Dobbie would want that and I doubt Dobbie’s system is pawned. However this is a nice thought-provoking exercise. For instance how could one further exam the 27K torrent file?
the file sorry.
after dowloaded by firefox and link to open with transmission , firefox say that this file contains a virus or malware
and if choose to save it, same message and the size file is 0k.
Just had a thought, I wonder if the link shortener is the issue? I’ll upload it elsewhere for download and let me know if it gives the same issue or not.
