Maintaining anonymity on private trackers??

[Time-Traveller]

The only way to have a completely secure box is by not connecting it to any networks especially the internet, anything that can be encrypted can be decrypted, anything that can be hidden can be revealed if the programmer is knowledgeable, determined enough and has plenty time on their hands.

It's just reverse engineering, you see

[Brenya]

anything that can be encrypted can be decrypted, anything that can be hidden can be revealed if the programmer is knowledgeable, determined enough and has plenty time on their hands.

No one has enough time on their hands.

[Time-Traveller]

anything that can be encrypted can be decrypted, anything that can be hidden can be revealed if the programmer is knowledgeable, determined enough and has plenty time on their hands.

No one has enough time on their hands.

Ever heard of distributed / cloud computing ?

It probably wouldn't take as long as you think

[Brenya]

No one has enough time on their hands.

Ever heard of distributed / cloud computing ?

It probably wouldn't take as long as you think

Yeah, I have. Google does it. Lots of cheap equipment, en masse. Still, though... although it certainly is a possibility... let's be practical, no one is going to do it just to get at your truecrypt file full of music and games.

R*AA and M*AA are like lions. They attack the weakest antelope, not the one that costs the most to kill.

[Time-Traveller]

Ever heard of distributed / cloud computing ?

It probably wouldn't take as long as you think

Yeah, I have. Google does it. Lots of cheap equipment, en masse. Still, though... although it certainly is a possibility... let's be practical, no one is going to do it just to get at your truecrypt file full of music and games.

R*AA and M*AA are like lions. They attack the weakest antelope, not the one that costs the most to kill.

Your absolutely right the RIAA etc isn't going to go to this kind of effort to take out sharers like ourselves, the point I was making was that anything that can be coded can be decoded if it really had to be done.

I like the lions & antelope's analogy btw

[Brenya]

I like the lions & antelope's analogy btw

I heard the anti-piracy organizations *cough* I mean the lions eat the entire antelope - bone and all!

[m021478]

Regarding some of your comments that mention not worrying about if because it's a credible tracker with admin who know what they are doing, or that the tracker encrypts their traffic...

Wouldn't one of the watchdog orgs simply be able to find out your IP by sharing a torrent that you are leeching/seeding from/to, then they could simply check the list of IP's of connected peers in their BT client?

[TheFoX]

The simple fact is that there is no real way to hide your identity from someone determined to find it. The way that the bit torrent protocol works means that you need to lets other swarm members know your IP address. If you use a seedbox, there will be records connected with that seedbox (via to/from).

Servers all log data throughput, so if you make 15 hops to a server, each hop will log the packet transfer.

Of course, whether we use a sledge hammer to crack a nut in the case of filesharing is the real answer. George Bush could go to war with Sweden over filesharing, but would he?

The simple fact is that the industry will always opt for the cheapest option with the greatest reward. As someone said, it is like the lion chasing down the slowest antelope.

[Alien5]

The Art of Taming Wild Horses.

also look in the forums of some private trackers for guides on anonymizing and hiding your IP etc. then click on the users profile, the last time i checked most were banned, but the guide remains there.

[m021478]

Still, though... although it certainly is a possibility... let's be practical, no one is going to do it just to get at your truecrypt file full of music and games.

I feel like an idiot for even asking this, but you've made a habit of downloading and sharing music, games, etc exclusively to/from your truecrypt file? Not really sure why, but doing that never occurred to me (like I said, I now feel like an idiot). Would you care to embellish a bit on any peculiarities of such a configuration?

also look in the forums of some private trackers for guides on anonymizing and hiding your IP etc. then click on the users profile, the last time i checked most were banned, but the guide remains there.

Any change you could spill the beans on which private tracker forum I should search for the guide you mentioned on ~ or can you send me a link (or the text) to the guide you are talking about?

Thanks!