How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information [pdf]

Re:How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address ... by x1798DE on Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:15PM (#12577983)

Don't know much about torrent technology, but it seems you can download torrents over UDP. Not sure how convincing you can be, though, like, can you pretend to be seeding from that address?

Likely a more successful course of action would be to spearphish the targets and compromise one of their machines, so you can actually download the content as them. You might as well even plant child porn or whatever on their computers, while you're at it. In for a penny in for a pound I suppose.

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Re:How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address ... by tptacek on Sunday September 25, 2016 @11:22PM (#12579003)

You can do that, but not even the EFF is saying that the uncertainty of your machine being compromised by a targeted attacker should prevent LEOs from being able to obtain a search warrant for it.

Give a close read to their recommendations, and then map them back to the scenario you propose.

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