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>Edit: some people have pointed out some totally legitimate potential flaws in this idea. And they're probably right, those may sink the entire scheme. But keep in mind that this is one idea off the top of my head, and I'm not any security expert.

Well to be fair to those people, you started out saying its a practical attack when it wasn't even a theoretical one.




Well, it's practical on a small scale. You could wait until a torrent has only 1-2 seeders, and then you can hope to give leechers all blocks of a file. Or, you could deliver a torrent with a 1GB installer (for some software package) and a 100kb keygen (which you replace with malware) fitting inside a 1MB block and you can be sure to spread that around regardless of the number of other seeders.




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