The Big Brother energy of that “We Can See You” eye in the middle is pretty high.
I mean, it’s an open “heads up” so better that than not informing their students at all
Yeah college networks are one of the biggest ones I would not trust unless I had a VPN going. Average computing? Perfectly fine. Naughty things? VPN up
They’re just trying not to lose their internet service provider probably. ISP’s are even starting to threaten their residential and commercial customers alike because they can’t afford the lawsuits so network tech’s are starting to turn in individuals about compliance and such.
In that case they should have been promoting VPN usage ‘’(^-^)
This can be easily bypassed by joining the seeding/downloading of popular torrents which gives access to peers’ IPs.
I am under-educated on this matter. Does that mean that establishments that run torrenting trackers have to seed/peer content? If so, that is very cool for people in regions where torrenting is not punished yet.
No, it’s about detection of people who seed/download. This encryption setting in torrent clients only protects you from passive external inspection of traffic done by ISP. Your ISP will still know that you use torrents (this is impossible to hide without VPN), but with encryption it won’t know specific torrents that you download/seed, and won’t (easily) know ip addresses of other peers (though it’s also detectable since you connect to them in order to transfer data).
However there is no protection from another peers spying on you. In order for BitTorrent to work you need to tell other peers what you are downloading and advertise your IP address. Which means that there is an implicit trust between peers. A common tactic used by IP holders is to start downloading popular pirate torrents (for which they own copyright) which gives them IP addresses of everyone who seeds/downloads specific content illegally, allowing them to proceed with legal action.
VPN, even for legal stuff cause “we can see you” can f off tbh
…which is why today’s sponsor is NordVPN!
(don’t actually use NV there are much better options, this was for comedic effect)
What’s wrong with Nord?
Overall the marketing is dishonest/over promises and there’s some previous lack of transparency with data breaches along with being closed source. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordVPN#Criticism
There’s just better options: https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/
*Builds privacy site*
*Embeds Google sheet*
That sheet seems to hold Nord in pretty good regard,
I used to use Nord. Happier with Mullvad, way less faff
How have you not yet realised to be very doubtful and suspicious of anything that’s heavily advertised on YouTube etc? Which Nord is like top 5 of along with Raid Shadow Legends, Raycon earbuds, BetterHelp and Manscaped. All, including Nord, having been widely known for years to be scams and/or just shitty products and companies. Do you really think they’d do those sponsorship deals if they were actually good and naturally got customers via word of mouth? All of this is so damn obvious.
If you get the torrent from a site using HTTPS and get the data only from encrypted peers is it even possible to tell what people are downloading?
If it was me, I’d snoop the DNS requests and/or SNI headers. Flag on torrent index sites and trackers known to be used for pirate stuff. They don’t need to know exactly which paw patrol movie you’re downloading, just that you are getting something from thepiratebay.
For anything public, it’s anything varying from trivial to hard/annoying depending on your client settings, but never quite impossible. Even in the best-case scenario where you have DHT turned off and all the trackers in the torrent are using HTTPS, man-in-the-middle attacks are fairly doable for anything popular.
Not from monitoring on the network
But if one of those peers is a snitch then you have a potential issue
More reason to use a VPN.
And make sure it isn’t PIA… I am using it and i wasnt aware it was zionist controlled!
Mossad says hello. So does Palantir and Penlink. They are all drinking buddies. They drink data.
I paid for the sub… and I am strapping for cash for now. Once I am not I will find a different provider and ditch it.
Good luck. Avoid american vpns too
PIA is my third… or fourth, I dont remember. I used avast, nordvpn, expressvpn, and I even had McAfee come with my new (formerly) windows PC. But since McAfee is a sack of shit VPN with a logs policy it was no better than using no VPN.
What is your recommendation?
I personally use Proton but it has its own issues and is expensive for a lot of people. Ive heard good things about Mullvad too but havent looked into it
They’re not trying to actually stop you; they’re trying to keep the lawyers at bay.
Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago
It’s still horrifying today. We’re just powerless to stop it.
Private tracker plus encryption. Good luck.
Issue is getting into the tracker, yeah? Back in the day it was going into random irc channels to beg for an invite, along with like 100 other randoms doing the same. I would imagine not much has changed in that regard, it just happens on Discord or Telegram?
I got into all the private trackers I’m on (4) during their open signup periods. Never had to beg for an invite. Just check from time to time.
Any chance you might name said trackers, so that I know what sites to watch?
