Tag Archives: bittorrent

CheckMyTorrentIp – Verify your torrent VPN or Proxy is always working

By HideIP Admin | Published: October 19, 2009
This post was written by Danny Carpenter, the creator of CheckMyTorrentIp, a great torrent tool. If you are interested in finding more details, you can contact him directly on mytorrentip at gmail. If you’re a Bittorrent user who subscribes to anonymizing services like VPNs or proxies, how do you verify your IP address is always hidden?  [...]
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Anomos – Anonymous BitTorrent Client

By HideIP Admin | Published: June 15, 2009
Anomos is a peer-to-peer file sharing system derived from BitTorrent which is capable of protecting its user’s identities by means of an advanced, planned mix network. It is based on the peer/tracker concept of BitTorrent in combination with an onion routing anonymization layer, with the added benefit of end-to-end encryption.   By combining these technologies, Anomos uses a platform where [...]
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BitBlinder – Anonymous BitTorrent and Private Browsing

By HideIP Admin | Published: May 17, 2009
This week, at Pittsburgh-based startup incubator AlphaLab, InnomiNet has presented BitBlinder, a tool that allows users to anonymously browse the web and transfer files using BitTorrent. BitBlinder is an free and open source project that mixes your Internet traffic with the traffic of everyone else in the BitBlinder network. With BitBlinder you can: Download files quickly and anonymously [...]
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How to check if your ISP manipulates your Torrent traffic

By HideIP Admin | Published: February 2, 2009
It is not unusual that your ISP limit the P2P traffic. As P2P file sharing traffic can constitute up to 75% of all the broadband bandwidth used, IPSs may “optimize” costs by limitting your Torrent traffic. How do you know if your P2P traffic is limitted? There is a tool, called Glasnost, that check if your ISP is manipulating your [...]
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VPN4Life is a scam

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 24, 2009
TorrentFreak reports that anonymous BitTorrent service VPN4Life is a scam. VPN4Life claims they were about to offer a fast, 128 bit encrypted, fully unlimited and anonymous PPTP service for one payment of $50.00 through PayPal. If genuine, the offer would have been very good as reputable VPN services offering fast transfer speeds and unlimited transfers costs around $10 [...]
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Video: How people are tracked using BitTorrent

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 7, 2009
Take a look to the way you can be tracked while using BitTorrent. As you can see is not very difficult. Thus, you may want to anonymize your BitTorrent traffic.
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How to Protect Your Torrent Traffic in Linux

By HideIP Admin | Published: December 18, 2008
Important! This is for Linux users only! Free IP-filtering application IPlist protects your BitTorrent traffic by controlling which IP addresses can and cannot connect to your system. IPlist is a list based packet handler which uses the netfilter netlink-queue library (kernel 2.6.14 or later). It filters by IP-address and is optimized for thousands of IP-address ranges.
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How to Protect Your Privacy When Downloading

By HideIP Admin | Published: December 15, 2008
On Lifehacker.com, I found an excellent article on how to protect your privacy when downloading files using BitTorrent. Firstly, Adam Pash, explains how you can get caught sharing files. Then, he, basically, advices you to use 2 tools to protect yourself: PearGuradian2 BTGuard Read the whole article here:Protect Your Privacy When Downloading. Enjoy!
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How to anonymize BitTorrent transfers

By HideIP Admin | Published: December 11, 2008
According to Torrent freak you can anonymize your activities and BitTorrent tranfers by connecting through BTGuard. BTGuard is a proxy services that acts as an intermediate between you and BitTorrents servers. It reroutes all your BitTorrent traffic through servers in Canada. This means that anyone who connects to you via BitTorrent, will see BTGuard’s IP, [...]
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