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    Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    Bit torrent users might find this of interest...

    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...p_privacy.html
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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    errr BT isn't very anonymous, it wasn't designed to be.....
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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    Bit torrent users might find this of interest...

    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...p_privacy.html
    So this confirms what we already know. Torrents are a very public way of sharing things, unless you are in a private tracker

    Besides you can encrypt most torrent traffic now

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    It isn't the anonymity of content that is the point, its that fact that it takes relatively little analysis to deduce who and what others are downloading without specifically monitoring them.
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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    also whats stupid about BT, is if someone is say doing something nefarious, they are uploading it as well as downloading it.

    Thats often a worse offence, to share it rather than just download it.

    Yet another reason why its a utterly stupid way of distributing data. Not to mention my upstream is 1.5mbit on BePro, my downstream, considerably faster.
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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    Stay hidden of what you do!


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    PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.



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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    Quote Originally Posted by Bondi View Post
    Stay hidden of what you do!


    http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/
    PeerGuardian 2
    PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.



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    Providing your are not downloading anything unlawful, or breaching copyright - there is no intrinsic problem anyway - however threats to personal privacy are of interest, and while copyright theft is a problem, some of the organoisation pursuing copyright threat issuers have been heavy handed and using techniques that border on illegality.
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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    You have a point, but if you where sharing that program does help. I think it helps with unauthorised access to your machine.


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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    I remember using that waaaaaay back in the past (I used to run a website with one of the devs): essentially it silently drops packets from ip addresses and blocks that you specify. Personally... if you're that fussed about obfuscating your activity then TOR is probably the way to go - this works for *all* internet traffic, not just torrents.

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    don't go recommending TOR, bittorrent ruins the network for everyone by using huge amounts of bandwidth, if ur gonna use it ONLY for normal internet traffic

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    private trackers FTW

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    Quote Originally Posted by shbris View Post
    don't go recommending TOR, bittorrent ruins the network for everyone by using huge amounts of bandwidth, if ur gonna use it ONLY for normal internet traffic
    Did you read my post? I said it works for *all* internet traffic. In these days of alleged government monitoring of internet traffic I don't think obfuscating your trail is an unwise move at all...

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    yeh for normal internet usage, maybe 100MB a day would be acceptable use of the network. but gigabytes of data over the tor network using bittorrent is not what it was designed for and abuse of the system!

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    Quote Originally Posted by shbris View Post
    yeh for normal internet usage, maybe 100MB a day would be acceptable use of the network. but gigabytes of data over the tor network using bittorrent is not what it was designed for and abuse of the system!
    100Mb a day doesn't even come close to my average usage over VPN when I'm working from home, and that's entirely legitimate traffic.

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    Re: Privacy and peer-to-peer networks...

    well thats fine, but it's not for bittorrent!

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