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[...] These keyservers are computers which store and index OpenPGP keys over the Internet. This helps users who rely on encrypted email, for example. The servers generally share the keys amongst each other in a pool and uploaded keys generally can't be removed.
The permanent storage of keys generally isn't an issue. However, when the system is used as a stealth resource to store magnet links to pirated content, this resilience is put in a different light.
This is exactly what happened.
A few weeks ago a series of rather odd, but valid, PGP keys were uploaded to SKS keyservers. These keys were not meant to encrypt email though, but as a safe storage for torrent magnet links.
As a result, popular keyservers, including the ones hosted by research university MIT and Surfnet, have transformed into pirate sites.
The magnet links, most of which point to pirated content, were added in the UID field. In examples we've seen, sometimes there were a hundred magnet links added to a single key entry. And with the search functionality of the keyservers, these are easy to find.
What better way to destroy public encryption?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @10:37PM
This "intellectual delusion" mafia can just hash everything they have, can modify their files and hash again until the algorithm starts to give collisions, and then search with these hashes as magnet links, their own links, links of type "not-invented-yet" or similar way to make these hashes represent their degenerate junk which they try to stuff to us for our money. If I write here for example "1234567890abcdefgh", it also can be taken as a forbidden content, doesn't it?
The thing is already lost here and it started to be lost when Internet became regulated by criminals from Hollywood. The only way out is to make it open enough to make the mafia impossible to act any way.
Unfortunately in the modern Internet we became cheaters too, by starting to think the same way as mafia.