Part of the problem is in the P2P protocol. Most of the changes you're suggesting would require changes to the protocol itself. That's out of scope for a client.

However, changes were been made (and golfed) that improved the security in a few ways, including

• Using the 3-arg form of open (prevents using the filename to execute shell commands)
• Closing all network sockets as soon as possible (this allows peers to reduce their open socket count, which may help their security)
• Some extra network activity after sending a file to make sure the peer's file is closed and written. (Again, helping peers with their security.)

*shrugs* The only further improvement I can think of would be to add taint-checking, but that would increase the character count by at least 60 characters.

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