ALERT – uTorrent, an extremely popular BitTorrent client, has been re-branded and released as the official mainline BitTorrent client, appropriately named BitTorrrent 6.0. BitTorrent, Inc. acquired uTorrent in December 2006 and gained nearly 50% of all BitTorrent users in the process. The original uTorrent standalone client will continue to exist, but will not include BitTorrent [...]

ALERT – SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol designed to provide encryption with minimal to no configuration, and has been used extensively to encrypt web communications through HTTPS (HTTP in SSL). Most security devices, including most firewalls, are not able to decrypt the traffic to see what is running inside SSL, and have little [...]

ALERT – This San Jose Mercury News article covers the recent BitTorrent announcement of their streaming video service, joining the ranks of Joost and Babelgum who are delivering a similar service. It is interesting to see how the use of P2P technology to deliver a legitimate (legal) service, complete with appropriate licensing demonstrates how it [...]