[HN Gopher] South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users w...
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       South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware
        
       Author : PROgrammerTHREE
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-06-26 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tomshardware.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
        
       | Aerroon wrote:
       | Unsurprisingly, terrible Korean internet strikes again. ISPs try
       | to charge companies insane fees because customers want to connect
       | to their servers. Company decides to use peer-ro-peer instead so
       | the ISP starts installing spyware on customer computers.
       | 
       | Makes me wonder where this myth of "good Korean internet" even
       | came from if everything ends up so bandwidth constrained. Is it
       | because all the customers and services are in the same city so it
       | appears low latency?
       | 
       | I hope everyone involved in this catches criminal charges, all
       | the way up the chain. Completely unacceptable behavior.
        
       | batch12 wrote:
       | Did they exploit a vulnerability or MITM the traffic somehow?
        
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