Re:A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
by baobabKoodaa on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:14AM
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The author seems to confuse peer-to-peer file sharing networks and onion routing. The explanations in the article don't make any sense.
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Re:A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
by danso on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:08PM
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I didn't see any mention of onion routing. There's several references to the "Deep Web", but that's in the context of file-sharing peer-to-peer networks.
Re:A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
by armitron on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:08PM
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What doesn't make sense? Limewire is P2P.
My impression of the -sparse- darknet mentions is that they were independently (= not through their P2P monitoring software) looking for useful data there and manually inserting it into their datastore.
Re:A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
by gwern on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:50PM
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I was also a little puzzled by
> In the nineties, Microsoft pursued a canonical FUD strategy, creating phony error messages to make consumers wary of using Windows on a competitor’s operating system—a tactic that resulted in a legal settlement exceeding two hundred million dollars.
Re:A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
by acdha on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:15PM
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I believe that’s a reference to this code and the resulting court case:
Re:A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
by gwern on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:51PM
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Huh. I was thinking it was something to do with MS Word or other MS apps (which I know often had cross-OS or alternate OS versions, like Mac support). But no, that is indeed about... running Windows on a non-MS OS (non-MS DOS). Back when Windows was a GUI shell around DOS. Now that is history.