Just had this idea pop up in my mind. Instead of relying on volunteers mirroring package repositories all around the world, why not utilise BitTorrent protocol to move at the very least some some load unto the users and thus increase download speeds as well as decrease latency?
That’s actually a really interesting idea. Windows even does something, or at a point did something, similar with system updates.
Peer to peer packages would have some privacy, and potential security issues of course but I like the thought
Good lord, and windows doesn’t have a way to verify their ISOs are authentic. Do they sign this p2p payload in any way? Seems like a great opportunity to spread a worm