On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:21:33 -0800 "F. Fox" <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Ted Smith wrote: > (snip) > It's not perfect - since transfers are still done in the clear - but > it does thwart the current most commonly used method for enumerating > users (i.e., scraping the tracker). It also uses almost zero > bandwidth on the Tor network. > I believe that this is a common misconception using Tor in this manner will not hide you from someone scraping the tracker. It will hide you from your ISPs DPI throttling (watching for/blocking connections going to trackers) but what gets reported to the tracker is your actual IP as without that the other peers would be unable to connect to you. So you can use this to get around throttling or blocking but it does not hide you from anti-p2p companies. If people want anonymous transfers they should use/support gnunet, mute or the like. Bittorrent was never built to be annonymous. -- [email protected] [email protected] This e-mail has been digitally signed with GnuPG - ( http://gnupg.org/ )
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