Darn, 502 Bad Gateway.  I'll leave the tab open in case it comes back. 

If you torrent, you should be using something like PeerGuardian or BlockControl.  Most client have peer filters built in, you just have to make sure they are on and up to date. 

Sadly, I really don't know who maintains the lists.  Most lists come from www.iblocklist.com, but there's no guarantee they haven't been taken over by the industry.

As with everything else in life, torrent in moderation.

So, if your IP shows up on their list, what happens if you click "Remove Me"?  Do they harvest and cook your criadillas?

I get credited for a single download.  What do I win?

Hi. We have no records on you.

This means you are using a private torrent tracker or, of course, you may not be a torrent user at all! It happens. Please, entertain yourself. Feel free to see what other people have downloaded.

Nice.  Gotta love PeerBlock.

I'm giving it a try - never used it before.  But then I seem to be the only one who was listed on the thread site.  I'll be interested to see if it interferes with torrents.

Fled wrote:

I'm giving it a try - never used it before.  But then I seem to be the only one who was listed on the thread site.  I'll be interested to see if it interferes with torrents.

It does not interfere.  However, it WILL interfere with accessing shared drives on your network (if you have any).

Fled wrote:

I'm giving it a try - never used it before.  But then I seem to be the only one who was listed on the thread site.  I'll be interested to see if it interferes with torrents.

No, I had 2 files listed (which is laughable). One was open source, the other was an technically an infringement, mostly upon my time... Apollo 18 sucked so bad they should pay me for the trauma.  These were the only 2 files I've recently picked up not using a trusted tracker. 

Peerblock helps, but keep in mind that it's just an ip blacklist.  It's always out of date and trivial to defeat.  Private "trusted" trackers are also pretty easy to gain access to.  Proxies, especially multi-hop ones are effective, but you're either paying good money or back to dial-up speeds.  TOR if used in conjunction with an SSL capable BitTorrent client is the safest way to go, but I haven't run and can't speak for TOR as far as performance.

Tall Paul wrote:

I am also unrecorded by that website at least I was until I clicked on their link.

fnord wrote:

I was clean, however I suppose I'm now on a watch list.

Innocents Abroad(band)

I'd like to present an example from the distant past. I had nothing but standard user access to cruel.com, yet I could simply post a pic from my server and harvest the ips. Whois, google and other resources allowed me to dox 85% of the ips I harvested.  This was 7 or 8 years ago.  This is trivial compared to current capabilities.

Keep in mind, the massive data footprint that people are leaving via google, facebook, twitter and online stores is so much more nuanced.  Do not for a moment think that there's an entire industry not correlating and selling this data. 

If you're ever interested in current nightmares like the triviality of stateful packet inspection, the scary state of BGP route advertisements, the fact that DNS is still mostly broken and SSL (and other root and signing) certs being hacked left and right... well don't ask me. I'll probably prevaricate.

Ever since Tim Berners-Lee created http, every site you've every visited has access to and can archive your ip. At some point Choad will probably blackmail us all. Fortunately I'm broke.

opsec wrote:

.....every site you've every visited has access to and can archive your ip. At some point Choad will probably blackmail us all. Fortunately I'm broke.

If he does we'll pull an Alzado on his ass.