safest Torrent site ?

[WarrenBuffet]

FTN is pretty safe

i would place my bet on mango or n*x.

+1

[F3n1x]

FTN is pretty safe

are you sure?
F******.net.Owner.Brandon.ASS.RAP3D-CELLKiLL/ftnobar-cellkill.rar

Ok sorry brandon i want all the best to you really but is only to point that users are safe but staff don't.. yeah respect staff work and troubles that they can get to help a all community.

[WarrenBuffet]

2 things.

1- thats a person, not the tracker. Admin does not = tracker
2- I'm sure whatever the reason for that happening is that prolly didn't have to do with the site. Out of respect though, plz take that torrent/file/whatever out of your post.

[Zaxx]

point is

you know it

so if you do

whats stopping the powers that be knowing it.

just because 99% of us dont know it doesnt mean its safe.

Very true. No such thing as a totally safe site, but it stands to reason that if the biggest sites are getting nailed (suprnova, elite torrents, loki, oink) then the smaller sites 'should' be less likely to be targeted. The initials are going for maximum possible results per legal effort..so to speak. As we all know anything can happen no matter the site but imo the smaller the site and that site's ability to pretty much stay out of the torrent community's various forums and off tracker lists greatly reduces the odds of being picked up on the initial's radar screen. Just my .02

Btw, I'd say 99.9% would be more accurate...

[plastique45]

Safest trackers are private trackers with few users dealing with files that are not very "hot". For example, Cinemageddon. I doubt the FBI will hunt down the 25 people downloading the latest Zombie-rape movie from Lithuania...

[silvertec]

It really depends on staff and coders to get it right
staff to keep the site smaller enough to stay off the radar but keep the members they got downloading so plenty of activity.

Coders to make sure the site doesn't get hacked and doesn't loose it database

[stoi]

im not sure why smaller is safer.

torrentleech is still going.

but im pretty sure the lvl 10 tracker in the WTAW thread, used to be another tracker, that was pretty small as well, and that got taken down, hence why they are totally paranoid now. (i could be wrong though, it may have been huge lol)

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im not sure why smaller is safer.

torrentleech is still going.

but im pretty sure the lvl 10 tracker in the WTAW thread, used to be another tracker, that was pretty small as well, and that got taken down, hence why they are totally paranoid now. (i could be wrong though, it may have been huge lol)

About that lvl 10 I don't think so, lots of its staff left it and constructed a lvl 9 one already

I think only trackers which steal something are those who get caught, elite torrents for example closed after they released Star Wars b4 theatre d8, they were only 50k users (so watch out ), hoping always the best for TL, it's really something special in the torrent world

[Grind$oFine]

You never know what site is going to be taken down next because of something like this.
I don't think it matters how big or small, well-know or unknown the tracker is. There's just no guarantee.
Either way, like it's already been said - individuals are not usually targets when a site gets raided, it's usually just staff so there's not much to worry about.

In my opinion, because BT is completely legal if used.. legally, I would assume the torrent trackers that follow rules in sync with the laws would be safer. When OiNK went down it was because of pre-releases and the whole donations being used for the owner's profit B$, which I don't think is being used against them anymore. So a site that doesn't allow content that hasn't been released, or maybe even a site that runs off an alternative to donations would be safer. In most cases, it's against the law (in the US) for the site to be taken down when they aren't breaking any laws.

Individually, I'm not sure how anyone can get busted via the internet unless you're downloading and uploading an excessive amount of content, or something that hasn't been released to the public. Otherwise how could they prove you're actually doing something illegal?

[rvt]

well the safest is probably one with SSH =] that is my recommendation

SSH = secure shell. Any tracker giving users shell access to the server is going to be the opposite of secure :-P

If you mean SSL, that only encrypts the data between your browser and the server. It does not stop bad guys getting an account, or mean that the data is encrypted on the server, or even that your ISP is not logging everything using a man in the middle attack.

i thought ssh/ssl was only usefull to prevent a man in the middle attack

Without a certificate signed by a trusted 3rd party, SSL is susceptible to man in the middle attacks.
Take a site with a self signed certificate. Your ISP or someone else sends you their own version of the cert when you connect. Your browser then uses that public cert when talking to the server. Only the attacker can decrypt the message though. So they take the messages you are sending, decrypt, encrypt them using the real server certificate and pass them along. They then take the servers reply, decrypt it, encrypt it for your browser and send it back to you.

Trusted 3rd party signatures are no guarantee of security though. Some companies are offering hardware for ISPs that will generate signed certificates that are accepted as trusted by all major browsers.