Bittorrent, P2P Filesharing Protocols: PLAGUEd by DIRTY RATs eating off a GRIMPLATE

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https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/nsa-broke-the-encryption-on-file-sharing-apps-kazaa-and-edonkey/
https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/3991308-the-answer-is-peer-to-peer-file-sharing/
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002226/SEBACIUM-GCWiki-Redacted.pdf
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002227/Readfiles-102-Redacted.pdf


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,”