Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Ogg to Arelor on Thu Mar 23 2023 06:15 pm

Hello Arelor!

** On Tuesday 21.03.23 - 07:28, Arelor wrote to Cougar428:

It is easy for Internet Service Providers to determine you are using BitTorrent.

What if you launch a VPN conection first?

most private sites ban vpns

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Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-

What if you launch a VPN conection first?

That helps - make sure you pick a reputable provider who doesn't keep
logs of traffic.

BitTorrent traffic is usually encrypted nowadays, but anybody downloading the same files as you can also find out easily you are downloading the
same file. In effect, the only thing you need to know who are downloading some piece of copyrighted material is to start downloading yourself and then check the list of IPs in the swarm.

If those other IPs are reassinged IPs from VPNs, it doesn't
mean much.

You do need to be extra-careful; ensure that your VPN has a kill-switch.
If the connection goes down, the VPN client needs to either block all
traffic or have the capability of killing an app, like your torrent
client, to ensure that you don't send traffic in the clear.





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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Fri Mar 24 2023 06:52 am

You do need to be extra-careful; ensure that your VPN has a kill-switch. If the connection goes down, the VPN client needs to either block all traffic or have the capability of killing an app, like your torrent client, to ensure that you don't send traffic in the clear.

Some torrent clients let you configure which network interface they use, so you could have the torrent client use the VPN network interface. Then it would only send/receive traffic on that interface; also, that would work only when the VPN is connected.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Fri Mar 24 2023 06:52 am

Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-

What if you launch a VPN conection first?

That helps - make sure you pick a reputable provider who doesn't keep
logs of traffic.

BitTorrent traffic is usually encrypted nowadays, but anybody downloading the same files as you can also find out easily you are downloading the
same file. In effect, the only thing you need to know who are downloading some piece of copyrighted material is to start downloading yourself and then check the list of IPs in the swarm.

If those other IPs are reassinged IPs from VPNs, it doesn't
mean much.

You do need to be extra-careful; ensure that your VPN has a kill-switch.
If the connection goes down, the VPN client needs to either block all traffic or have the capability of killing an app, like your torrent
client, to ensure that you don't send traffic in the clear.

this is funny. a guy who doesn't know how to use torrents telling someone about them.

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