Brn Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Hi everyone, I had a big surpirse today. I wanted to check if a torrent was what it said it was. It contained a txt file and an avi file. I wasn't sure, so I only downloaded the txt file to check what it says about the torrent (skipped the other one). To my greatest amazement, the txt contained my e-mail address. The torrent was from a public site (ISOhunt), not a subscription one.Is this normal? Can a torrent file gather such information? Because then when the file is seeded back, probably a software somewhere is looking for it and collects the info from all over the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Did the file contain your e-mail address when downloading the whole torrent (not skipping files)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brn Posted July 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Did the file contain your e-mail address when downloading the whole torrent (not skipping files)?I did not download the whole torrent because got a bit scared to be honest. Anyway, the torrent seemed a bit fishy, that's why I did not start download the whole thing in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 The reason I ask is that the behavior you describe is consistent with disk space allocation problems common with videos that people try to preview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brn Posted July 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 The reason I ask is that the behavior you describe is consistent with disk space allocation problems common with videos that people try to preview.No, I didn't try to preview the video file.So basically you are saying that this is quite normal?But why does utorrent acces e-mail data? Yeah, it might read diskspace and certain data on the drive, but why does it write a sensitive data into the file that is going to be uploaded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 but why does it write a sensitive data into the file that is going to be uploaded?Tinfoil hat off please.If the text file actually has your e-mail address in it, then the torrent was created as such and you have other issues.uTorrent ONLY uploads data that validates against the piece hashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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