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Submission + - BitTorrent 6.0 beta closed source, Windows only

Submitted by makomk on Friday August 03, 2007 @06:42AM

makomk writes: The BitTorrent (Mainline) 6.0 beta has been released, and it's a rebranded version of uTorrent. Unfortunately, it's also closed source and Windows-only. (Apparently, BitTorrent Inc always planned that the next version of Mainline would be closed-source, even before they decided to base it on uTorrent.) It also comes with a mysterious content delivery system called BitTorrent DNA, which appears to consist of a single invisible background task, dna.exe.

Does the original, open source BitTorrent client have a future, or is it time for its users to switch to one of the many other BitTorrent clients?

Submission + - Seclists.org Suspended By Domain Registrar

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makomk

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @07:27PM

makomk writes: "I noticed that seclists.org, the well-known archive of security related mailing lists run by nmap's Fyodor, was down and not resolving. The whois information revealed that it had, in fact, been suspended by GoDaddy.com for abuse. This probably has something to do with recent attempts by a malicious individual to shut the site down. Looks like this time they succeeded..."

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