Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
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#2This seems like a major security issue, since some browsers (Chrome, at the very least, and probably others) can be set to automatically open a torrent client when links to .torrent files are clicked.
Is it possible someone hijacked this IP?
Edit:
1. Seems the IP belongs to a CDN (edgecast).
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#3Can not reproduce from Germany (manually added the hosts entry)
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#4So that's what that was. Happened to me yesterday.
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#5reproduced from France a couple times yesterday
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#7platform.twitter.com is hosted at Amazon S3 (via an additional CDN).
All S3 files by default can be distributed with torrent, if the URL is appended with ?torrent
S3 servers will act as a tracker and seeds.
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#8Reproduced from Italy just a couple of minutes ago.
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#9Don't twitter use torrents to deploy across multiple servers?
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#10You can reproduce it by pretending that the IP is "68.232.35.139" by modifying your own /etc/hosts file, not funny indeed.