On 05/16/2012 07:41 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 16.05.2012 12:28, schrieb Per Jessen:
George Olson wrote:
As we all know, there are plenty of legitimate uses of torrent files that don't involve piracy. I downloaded my opensuse distribution using ktorrent.
I have been reading about how to protect from having one's own computer logged with one of the anti-p2p groups and government monitoring. Whether or not one is downloading legitimate or copyrighted material, none of us like to be monitored.
In a google search, the protection software and services out there that I could find are for windows or mac based computers, except BT Guard, which is a pay service.
So I am wondering, what are opensuse users using to protect themselves from government monitoring and having their ip addresses logged? Is there another service like BT Guard which is not a pay service? What about a utility that blocks IP addresses from known anti-p2p groups, like peer guardian?
Look up project Tor.
Hm..., I found this:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea
Sorry, I missed the bit about bittorrent, I thought the question was more about privacy in general.
Any other solutions for the OPs question?
Well, I think the answer is - if you're concerned about privacy of bittorrent, just don't use it.
I looked up TOR. It does look interesting, and thanks for the link that shows that it is best not used through a torrent client. Although I wonder if the same applies to ktorrent. Do torrent clients by nature use UDP protocol? As far as other anonymity, what about things like skype calls and email? Do those you TCP streams so that they can be protected by TOR? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 4GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org