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I heard on the radio that "Brighthouse" (US) is blocking bandwidth at homes that are possibly P2P'ing...sorry, no more info...will look into later...

app of choice > tools > encryption.

From recent press there seems to be a bit of a war on against P2P and file-sharers, as the recent high-profile cases have been against people who are sharing music, rather than those downloading it.

I guess by scaring everyone into become leechers they will cut the roots of P2P, I've certainly become more careful about using systems that don't anonymise the source.

Say, for example, that a hypothetical person was downloading a variety of things (games, music, TV shows etc) using a format such as, say, bittorrent, how might they go about preventing anything being incriminating? In a purely theoretical way of course. Ahem.

use this http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint ... elete.mspx to hypothetically sweep up after yourself

Hmm, that looks more like something that this hypothetical person may use to delete files that they don't want anyone to know they had, as opposed to something that would prevent people knowing that they had acquired them. I'm thinking along the lines of a person who may want to keep the downloaded stuff on their PC, but not have people see that it was downloaded short of them coming and taking his HDDs. Allegedly.

I suppose you could hypothetically see if your router can do IP/Mac spoofing

fabyak wrote:I suppose you could hypothetically see if your router can do IP/Mac spoofing

You can only spoof IPs for one way packets, otherwise the packets don't know where to reply to (or they reply to somewhere else who isn't expecting them and they disregard them)

In reality, there is no way of becoming anonymous, every ISP in the country will log you against any IP you have for the duration you have it, and any P2P application will publish your IP address. You can try using anonymous proxies, but for high datarate applications these will suck.

Have an Open wireless AP (or WEP). Do the download/encryption*/secure delete thang.
When someone comes knocking on your door you say "Wasn't me.. could someone else be using my connection?"

*Using TrueCrypt with full drive/hidden volume will ensure that even if your "unformatted" drive was identified and found, when pressed/threatened and you decrypt, you open up your bank files and "home <cough> made" videos.

Not that I've thought about this hypothetical scenario or anything...

One could hypothetically not share and use usenet. Still easyish for them to find out who you are, should they head in that direction, rather than targeting sharers, though.

Although I don't use it, alot of usenet providers seem to offer SSL these days, that should protect you from being detected as long as you're willing to pay.

Lee wrote:Although I don't use it, alot of usenet providers seem to offer SSL these days, that should protect you from being detected as long as you're willing to pay.

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