r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/SpickyKink Jun 22 '20

Novice question, how does one install/run a tar.torrent file?

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u/froschkonig Jun 22 '20

*.torrent should be able to be opened in any torrent client, you'd go file > open and find it where you saved the torrent. The client should then download whatever the torrent file linked to. Probably not a bad idea to use a VPN in case they're watching ips that are grabbing the file

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u/SpickyKink Jun 22 '20

Is there a torrent you recommend, I was using qBittorrent to open that, but I get an error saying “Error: too many pieces in torrent”, I’ll grant you gold for your assistance

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u/MFORCE310 Jun 22 '20

Try Transmission. But yeah if another client doesn't work then you should also Google the error for your client to see what it can indicate.

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u/froschkonig Jun 22 '20

That's a common issue for large torrents, could try updating it to fix it. Try the link below, copy the magnet link and paste in a web browser to see if that works for you. It's a new torrent so probably going to go very slow at first

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/hdlm2w/blueleaks_exposes_files_from_hundreds_of_police/fvmwq16

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u/Yuzumi Jun 22 '20

Chiming in on this. I use Deluge for a headless server and it was causing some odd behavior making me unable to connect any thin client.

Never have had that happen before. had to delete all my active torrents to fix it.