https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/nsa-broke-the-encryption-on-file-sharing... https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/3991308-the-answer-is-peer-to-peer... https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002226/SEBACIUM-GCWiki-Redacted.... https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002227/Readfiles-102-Redacted.pd... By 2010, the British electronic eavesdropping agency Government Communications Headquarters was also interested in “active P2P exploitation research,” web application used by analysts NSA’s File-Sharing Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment Pod that at the time had “the capability to identify users sharing/downloading files of interest program called GRIMPLATE was developed to study how employees used BitTorrent The wiki article also hints at information sharing with law enforcement. “DIRTY RAT will soon be delivered to the [London] Metropolitan Police and we are in the early stages of relationships with [U.K. child protection agency] CEOP and the FBI, PLAGUE RAT has the capability to alter the search results and deliver tailored content to a target,”