VPN bug poses privacy threat to BitTorrent downloaders

PC World
Nov 26, 2015, 8:43 pm336 pts
A bug affecting some VPN services can be used to figure out a computer's real IP addresses, including those of BitTorrent users, which could pose a huge privacy and possibly a legal risk. The vulnerability affects those services that allow port forwarding, according to VPN provider Perfect Privacy, which wrote…

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