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[Firefox Friday] FireTorrent – Download Torrents from Firefox

As we all know, Opera supports download of torrent files within the browser eliminating the need of external torrent clients. Same is not true with Firefox. Fortunately, we now have an extension which lets us download .torrent files within Firefox. FireTorrent integrates BitTorrent into the existing download manager of Firefox. Now, you can download torrents like [...]

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uTorrent is not Safe! Upgrade NOW!

According to a report by TorrentFreak, older versions of uTorrent may not be that secure after all. A recent vulnerability discovered in earlier versions of uTorrent and BitTorrent clients can be exploited to compromise a computer for the execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of .torrent files. [...]

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Halite – A new light-weight BitTorrent client

Features Halite is in an early stage of development supporting basic features: * Multiple downloads. * Displays detailed information for the selected torrent. * Connection limits both global and per-torrent. * Transfer rate limits again global and per-torrent. * Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol). * IP filtering with eMule ipfilter.dat import. * Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary. * Association [...]

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