Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Mar 2012 22:06 UTC
"If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider has been watching, and they're coming for you. Specifically, they're coming for you on Thursday, July 12. That's the date when the nation's largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users' bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials." One day, years from now, historians are going to debate whether this was the point of no return.
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RE[2]: Technical question about torrents
by Lorin on Fri 16th Mar 2012 08:48
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RE[3]: Technical question about torrents
by bornagainenguin on Fri 16th Mar 2012 18:21
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Lorin baited...
I have used HideMyAss, works very good and very noob friendly
Ummm yeah...somehow you missed this piece of news?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/fbi-arrests-lulzsec...
The FBI has announced that it has arrested LulzSec member Cody Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona, known as "recursion," charging him with conspiracy and the unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.
Kretsinger is accused of using SQL injection attacks to obtain confidential information from the systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Kretsinger and his co-conspirators are then claimed to have disseminated the stolen information via the LulzSec Web site, and publicized it on Twitter. The FBI also asserts that Kretsinger wiped his hard disk in order to avoid detection by law enforcement.
To hide his identity when performing the attack, the FBI claims that Kretsinger used VPN service HideMyAss.com. In spite of this, activity was traced to an address in Arizona.
Kretsinger is accused of using SQL injection attacks to obtain confidential information from the systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Kretsinger and his co-conspirators are then claimed to have disseminated the stolen information via the LulzSec Web site, and publicized it on Twitter. The FBI also asserts that Kretsinger wiped his hard disk in order to avoid detection by law enforcement.
To hide his identity when performing the attack, the FBI claims that Kretsinger used VPN service HideMyAss.com. In spite of this, activity was traced to an address in Arizona.
I'm afraid you're operating under a false sense of security here, or worse encouraging others to get themselves trapped...
--bornagainpenguin
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None that you would notice nowadays. A few years ago, encrypted connections would have been few and far between. But most torrent clients default to allowing both (encrypted and plain-text). With only 2 torrents running, I'm getting over 300 KBps (~2.4 Mbps) with just encrypted connections.
Unless you have an ancient P2 system, you won't notice. CPUs now are mostly idle. Adding 1-5% extra CPU processing is nothing.
They'll be able to see your DNS requests, so they'll know which sites you're going to, but they won't know what you are doing on those sites.
You don't "enable it in the browser or torrents". You change your default route (default gateway) to be the VPN IP instead of your ISP. Then all traffic (browser, torrent, *everything*) goes through the encrypted link. They won't even be able to see your DNS requests.