Am 16.05.2012 14:10, schrieb George Olson:
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?
Emails should be considered just like a post card: everyone that sees it on its way can read it (if not encrypted and decrypted on a private computer only). As you are using gmail you can even be sure that your emails not only get read but also analised to profile you and everybody who writes to you, including thru mailing lists like this. Even encrypted emails do not give you any privacy as long as there is at least one recipient who uses gmail, hotmail and so on, as the mails will be decrypted on these online accounts, analised, profiled... Skype is closed source and belongs to Microsoft. I guess, this says all. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com personal facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mars.fotografo google+: https://plus.google.com/109534388657020287386 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org