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| Thread ID: 98466 | 2009-03-25 22:50:00 | Torrents get invisible as PirateBay plans ultra secure network | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 759602 | 2009-03-25 22:50:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz :) |
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| 759603 | 2009-03-25 22:55:00 | Thats if you pay for it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 759604 | 2009-03-26 02:27:00 | Its basically a darknet for torrent users. Its nothing new. You join the VPN You get a new IP Address (ex. 10.70.52.80) You use your torrent app like normal Peers can still see your IP, however when they traceroute to you it'll possibly look more like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Master>tracert 10.179.0.30 Tracing route to 10.179.0.30 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 66 ms 64 ms 65 ms 10.179.0.30 Trace complete. They'll still have your IP but it'll be an "internal-only" IP which doesnt have any real value .. unless Ive missed the point there? Problem is, unless there's a *ton* of people on it, it'll be horribly slow to download. On the up-side, the VPN encryption will provide a nice layer of anonymity from your ISP or anybody else snooping (For the security-conscious of course, not that we'd ever download anything we shouldn't) My 2c ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 759605 | 2009-03-26 02:39:00 | Its basically a darknet for torrent users. Its nothing new Thats true - all its doing really is saying - yeah we are doing things we shouldn't - try and catch us, then prove it. Peers can still see your IP, Unless the actual Persons IP is completely cloaked, and ONLY an internal IP is seen - then whats stopping the powers to be joining up and getting the info they so desperately are trying to do any way. Reading the article eventually opening it up to everyone, including users outside Sweden. Mind you if they start looking at VPN security - as per the article again, there will be all hell to pay - many businesses use VPN as a secure link. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 759606 | 2009-03-26 06:26:00 | I'm not sure how effective this is going to be, as it basically defeats the whole point of P2P networking. If you're running all your traffic via a VPN router in Sweden, then your speeds will once again be limited to how fast a single connection to that router will go. The idea behind P2P is you grab all your traffic directly from peers, rather than from a single source. Sure it'll make things anonymous, up to a point, but it'll slow things down something chronic and make TPB's bandwidth bill go through the roof (hence the cost I guess). | Erayd (23) | ||
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