I know that direct p2p filesharing programs have been mostly superceded by torrents and even ddl, but sometimes I feel like “trying my luck” with stuff I didn’t search for directly (behind a VM, because i’m not that adventurous)

  • TediousLength@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    7 days ago

    The only real option nowadays is SoulSeek. Just make sure you set it up properly. I have seen loads of people mistakenly (I assume) share personal folders. And I am sure some people pry on these.

    A couple years ago I was going through this guy’s shared folders because he had a few bits of obscure media I was looking for. Then I ended in a folder containing very personal pictures (family, ids, bank cards). I was actually scared for that guy! I literally found his phone number in the files, and called him to warn him… We are still friends! :D Following this I did two things:

    • Spent a whole day looking for people sharing personal info, and warning them.
    • Made a folder with files containing fake personal info, fake pictures, etc. I just gave the files names like password.txt, holiday2017.png, etc. Those files were downloaded almost immediately.

    For over 3 years I had a torrent that had been stuck at just under 90%. We were 4 more or less 2 over the years. Then I randomly found this guy on soulseek who had the file from the torrent (exact name and size), but it was in private. I messaged him, he wanted to trade (never understood this type of people). Thankfully I had something he wanted. We traded, switched the file in the torrent folder, force check, 100% Motherfuckers! I never kept in touch with that guy, and his precious little file is easily findable on public trackers :D

    TLDR - Soulseek

    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      I want to thank you and people like you.

      I had someone do something similar for me, when I switched from Plex to Jellyfin I didn’t know what I was doing too well and it wasn’t as secure as I had thought it was. Well someone found and gained access to it and, rather than doing something nefarious, let me know by changing a few cover art images to a warning explaining that with how it was set up at the time I could get compromised quite easily. They saved my ass from a huge headache down the line I’m sure, and I never got to thank them for it.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devOPEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Spent a whole day looking for people sharing personal info, and warning them.

      You really did god’s work there

      I messaged him, he wanted to trade (never understood this type of people)

      Me neither. I guess they revel in being the “sole proprietor” of hard to find data and think they’re like shiny rocks or something