PeerGuardian to guard against RIAA tracing tools, still no real solution

May 7, 2003

onlinetracker used our news submit to tell us about a new utility called Peer Guardian. The software developed by one avid AudioGalaxy user (a P2P client closed by the RIAA) blocks over 4 million IP addresses that could be used by the recording industry and affliated companies. The utility is developed for those that do not want to be traced the record industry and this way avoid a lawsuit. However according to the article on Wired.com, the technology is far from 'water proof'.

The software, though, doesn't provide
complete protection for individuals, said Travis Hill, BayTSP's director
of engineering. PeerGuardian's weakness stems from the fact that users
must continually update the list of IP addresses that are blocked. As a
result, network security companies like BayTSP can find holes in the
PeerGuardian system.

"If they had
documented one of our IP addresses correctly, which in this case is still
a pretty big if, then we'd spill over through our (other IP addresses),"
Hill wrote in an instant
message

Source: Wired.com