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Originally posted by CookieRevised
People, NO, torrents are as insecure as any other means!!!! Don't be fooled.
* The files can still be hosted anywhere...
* If my PC is infected with a virus and I have no idea about it (actually even _if_ I know about it, I could easly do this on purpose to harm Plus!), I still can make a torrent file, people will not see/investigate the difference...
* etc...
Providing a torrent is by no means any more secure then pure P2P methods like Kazaa.... !!!
As far as I can tell the torrent link, and by any purpose the download, is based upon an md4/5 hash of the complete file, so there can't be a faked part of it if the hash you download is the hash an official source provides (which Patchou himself or any admin around has calculated using the original binary). You only can download parts of the file that match the hash set by the .torrent file. And if the .torrent file is provided in the official server, there is no way to fake it.
There may be other .torrent's with fakes/viruses/trojans/porn around, but those .torrent's weren't, aren't and won't be THE official .torrent provided by msgplus.net.
However, you can always download from the server. The new MP! servers are capable of a uberhigh bw and have no transfer limit (at least appreciable), so it doesn't make much sense to use an alternative way to get a file (mainly if it's only a couple of MB file). However, this alternative could be interesting when it's time to save some server money or to make the download faster (if the file is popular enough) than if pulled from the server.
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