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how safe is u torrent

how safe is u torrent

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 25, 2011 10:12 PM

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Aug 25, 2011 11:48 PM in response to babowa

Indeed, just use torrents to see the possibilties of such things, it's really trivial to doctor it & you have no control over what's installed since the installer uses special permissions to install everrything! 🙂


All your eMails, Credit Card info, mother's Maiden name, in fact every keystroke & mouse movement can be monitored, as well as using your iSight to even have a pic of you for the DMV!

Mar 13, 2013 4:26 AM in response to onek00lj4y


That's not entirely true,most sensitive info is encrypted especially bank details


That's not entirely true either. Senstive information can be encrypted, true, but it's not encrypted by default, and requires user action to do this. Now if you so lax about security that you're dumb enough to use torrents to steal, are you dumb enough to also leave sensitive data unsecured? And what encryption will protect you from the keylogger you installed when you installed the hacked version of Photoshop or whatever?


So, no, most senstive info is not encrytped unless you do it, and there's nothing special about bank details either.

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