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Filesharing anonymous and how they try to catch you…Tor to the rescue!!
Torrentfreak.com has a nice writeup as to how a company called Logistep is “catching” online file sharers. this is limited to P2P, gnutella and eDonkey right now. Bittorrent is a bit of a shady thing still but I am asking this: How on earth are they proofing anything with this method? the easiest thing to do , to bypass this scheme, is to use Tor. Run all your filesharing software over Tor and good luck to them in catching you.
I have used tor to browse the web for some time now and, even though sometimes its slow because your packets get routed through chine or Mongolia, it works perfectly. There is no way that anyone can check where you are surfing from or to. I experimented and surfed a test site I have for half an hour, clicking on various pages and links.
I had over 60 different IPs in my logs. Almost every request from the browser came from a different host. It is trivial to configure your applications to run through the Tor proxy on your machine and therefore getting near 100% invisibility.
As I said, sometimes the speed is an issue but for anonymity its perfect!
You can get Tor from here
- Windows version of Tor (Instructions)
- Mac version of Tor (Instructions)
- Linux version of Tor (Instructions)
Install and follow the documentation. It takes about 5 minutes to get your system running Tor and to add an extra layer of protection to your surfing habbits. Oh and consider sharing your bandwidth so others can get anonymity too!
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TOR was not designed to handle massive amounts of file sharing traffic. The TOR network is community run and if everyone runs their P2P traffic through it, it will cease to exist.
If you are going to run your P2P traffic through TOR, I hope you at least consider donating your computer/bandwidth to the TOR network.
I already am, my machine donates 1mbit down and 512k up at any given time.
//flosse
Tor explicitly states NOT to run P2P over Tor, If you are or are not donating bandwidth, Don’t do it.
tor is not slow because it has to route packets through “chine”, it is slow because people use it for bittorrent traffic.
I think it’s true that you break even in terms of system strain if you donate part of your pipe while d/ling torrents, so you and i are cool on that point.
But, please… don’t tell people that it’s ok to download torrents using tor. It was never designed to carry that kind of load.
thx
I use GigaTribe. It encrypts all exchanges and is only for the transferring of files between friends. No ISP can detect what you’re exchanging. It’s at http://www.gigatribe.com