Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloads all torrents now?

Hi :)
Many people think it's a security problem before they
1. Use it and poke around to see what is going on, what it's doing (or
more importantly what they are NOT doing!), monitor download/upload
traffic
or
2.  Read up on it, study the specs, find out about the protocols or
read through the code of an open source one to see what it would do.

Oddly, people DONT worry about uploading attachments to emails,
playing games online, online banking, giving out credit card info
online, using "The Cloud", uploading to SkyDrive, filling in online
forms, remote desktopping.  People seldom bother to check what ports
are routinely open or which flick open temporarily while using
proprietary programs.  Lets not even start going into cookies and why
so many apparently innocuous websites need to install a little bit of
code onto your machine.  People also feel safe with ActiveX, macros
(in documents using MS formats) and even with Java despite articles in
the news and warnings from Homeland Security.

The most popular password is "password" and has been for decades!  25%
(= 1 in 4) of people use 1 of these three as their pin-number for
credit cards and other banking cards, door access and other
pin-numbers; 1234, 1111, 2222.  Each time you use a bank card you get
3 tries.  Borrow 4 cards from random people but maybe only use 2 in
one machine before walking on to the next bank otherwise it might look
suspicious.  Of course such crimes tend to be discovered later but
recovering the money is more tricky.  The card-holders suffer (the
legit and the crim) but not the banks, of course.

Regards from
Tom :)


On 22 January 2014 07:13, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com> wrote:
> > I believe that using Torrent is a security problem
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> It isn't. I use torrents so as to share with other users and not stress the
> LO servers
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